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Yale’s new Yiddish program helps students fulfill the University’s language requirement while connecting with Jewish culture and Eastern European history. Previously, Yale offered only one course for ...

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When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

Michael Rosen is joined by his Yiddish teacher, Tamara Micner. They chat about where the language came from, what it's like to learn and what Michael is like in class. Show more Michael Rosen is ...

A lot of people know a few Yiddish words, but few actually speak it outside Orthodox Judaism. During the pandemic, some secular Jews have taken up learning the language to reconnect to their heritage.

NEW YORK (JTA) — The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s new production of “Fiddler on the Roof” enacts a familiar story in an unfamiliar language. The actors sing about joy and hardship, and argue ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The scenes were jarring, as intended, and meant to provoke fear: neo-Nazis parading in front of Disney World and crowding a highway bridge in Orlando, shouting antisemitic slurs, ...