Nestled between Bellissimo Pizzeria and the hardware store at 20 Soundview Marketplace on Shore Road in Port Washington, the bright blue and white lights of the newly opened Moxie Salon and Beauty ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With so many of the most popular comics written by New York Jews, and centered in the city, much of New York’s Yiddish-tinged, recognizably Jewish language made its way onto the pages.