When DOGE routed the National Endowment for the Humanities, hundreds of grants for Jewish history and Yiddish culture were ...

The new English translation is drawing praise but surprisingly, the original Yiddish version was never released in book form ...

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their forty-three fellow explorers headed west up the Missouri River, bound for the west coast. As they met a succession of different Native ...

The conversation sparked by the book — “‘People Love Dead Jews’ ate my life,” she jokes — turned the novelist and Hebrew and Yiddish scholar into a go-to expert on the recent rise in antisemitism. An ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish ...

Grade (pronounced GRAHD-uh) focused on the minutiae of Orthodox Jewish life and customs (one of his especially esteemed works ...

These new titles for Pesach give young ones a taste of the holiday’s history and traditions, from tales of adventure to a board book shaped like a Seder plate.

What awards has Joel Grey been nominated for? Outstanding Director of a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish), Outstanding Director of a Musical (Outer Critics Circle ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late ...

“It’s all here: Anarchist, Zionist, Bundist, and Nationalist. We have texts from ribald Yiddish joke books to the most sacred texts. All of it represents the richness of Jewish life in the Diaspor ...