The installation in Munich is an ill-conceived attempt to honor the Jewish humor of millions of Yiddish speakers murdered by ...

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Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we have so many words for them! Bestie. Sis. Bro. Partner-in-crime. We’ve got a ...

NEW YORK — Yiddish was the language spoken by Tevye the milk peddler and the other shtetl characters depicted in the stories that inspired “Fiddler on the Roof,” yet in this country the landmark ...

Menschlichkeit is one of those meaningful Yiddish words that have no English equivalent. It’s a pity, because it embodies a concept born of a thousand years of eastern European Jewish experience. The ...

However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

A culture with no country is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs, writes the social justice organizer at the Workers Circle. (JTA) — Queer elders can be hard to find. There’s no app I ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.