For each text, I design activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.

The Last Yiddish Speaker” is a gripping new play set in a chillingly plausible future, where the personal cost of survival ...

Over the past decade Poland has been experiencing what many are calling a Jewish Renaissance - fuelled by a new unexpected generation of young Poles intent on discovering their Jewish roots. Nowhere ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

On January 13, 2019, Yechiel Jaraz personally received a license to officially guide in Yiddish in Israel from Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin. The traditional language of Ashkenazi Jews is, in ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.

People have been responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways - some by donating money to humanitarian projects, others by protesting. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs ...

Ikh bin geboyrn gevorn Passaic, New Jersey. “I was born in Passaic, New Jersey.” Those were the first words Dr. Hank Levine learned in Yiddish in an in-person group way back in 1975. One can forgive ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...