The editors discuss how a previously lost decades-old manuscript was found and pieced together. It's being called 'probably ...

NEW YORK — On the third floor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Stefanie Halpern, director of archives, carefully held up a nearly century-old agricultural map of what was then Belorussia.

is “quite probably the last great Yiddish novel,” the critic Adam Kirsch writes in an introduction. Dwight Garner, in a New York Times review, calls it “a melancholy book that also happens to be ...

Duke Jewish Student Union (JSU) swapped Thursday night cramming time for a spectacular stand-up comedy show. Held at the ...

“It’s Bubbie and her schtick,” he said. “It’s Jewish humor, Borscht Belt humor. Jewish humor, you can laugh at everything. So there’s like a lot of down parts in the show, there will be sad things … ...

Yiddish is my first language ... His descriptions of people can be really funny. You look at it and you think, “Oh, I know someone like that.” How do you think the Holocaust shapes Grade ...

is “quite probably the last great Yiddish novel,” the critic Adam Kirsch writes in an introduction. Dwight Garner, in a New York Times review, calls it “a melancholy book that also happens to be ...

In this way, Fey utilizes the tried-and-true defense mechanism of female comedians: Jewish humor. Jewish humor developed as Jewish comedians sought a peaceful, intellectual way to combat prevalent and ...

(The Conversation) — Jewish American artists were at the heart of the comics industry – and a closer read of beloved characters reflects fears about assimilation and acceptance. (The ...

As Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest Senate speech and made clear he was going for 25 hours, Jewish social ...

Everything about the Seder reeks of serious. Serious symbols, serious meaning, serious lessons. Where is there room for ...

That origin story reflects the heritage of Superman’s creators: two of the many Jewish American writers and artists who ushered in the Golden Age of comic books. The American comics industry was ...