Gallant observed with the “cold eye” that Yeats recommended for writers, even when drawing on her own life in fiction.

Whole pages of it were in the nonsense, dingbat font of Wingdings — a Space Invaders-like glyph ... crammed with stacked cardboard containers and their contents, including a Yiddish edition of the ...

The Resurrection of a Lost Yiddish Novel At the end of the twentieth ... In McInerney’s telling, Chloë Sevigny, then a young It Girl, was the font from which absolute cool flowed.

“Nu” is one of these Yiddish words that has various meanings, like a call for somebody to do something: “Nu? Come on!” But it can also have a more curious implication, as if to ...

It’s titled “California.” He reads first in Yiddish — a linguistic blend of German with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic, and other European influences — and then in English. “The waves will cradle me and ...

The Yiddish poet Chaim Grade survived World War II by fleeing his city, Vilna, now Vilnius, and wandering through the Soviet Union and its Central Asian republics. His wife and mother stayed ...

At long last, Sons and Daughters. The esteemed critic Harold Bloom, a native speaker of Yiddish, called Chaim Grade one of the four greatest writers in the Yiddish language. Sons and Daughters ...

The first is Passover, the most observed Jewish holiday on the calendar. Passover celebrates the Jewish people’s freedom from ...

More than 100,000 people in New York City speak Yiddish. And if any of them were listening to Brad Lander on Wednesday, they may have wanted to cover their ears. That’s because Lander ...

In this week’s travel roundup, we bring you tourist misbehavior and unruly incidents from March so far, then sweeten ...

“There’s a Yiddish word, beshert… It means ‘meant to be,’” she tells CNN. A Californian university professor left the US for what he thought would be a six-month trip to Japa ...