The Monty Pickle Show is a puppet comedy for kids, created by the producers of ‘Sesame Street‘ and ‘Fraggle Rock‘ ...

With kids literally all over you 24/7, it’s nice to have a secret language when you want to have a discreet chat with your partner. This story originally appeared on Kveller. We’ve been ...

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 ...

Click to hear this article read aloud. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us many challenges. But ironically, it’s also helped make 2020 a great year for learning Yiddish. The annual YIVO Yiddish ...

Few languages resonate as powerfully as Yiddish in the minds of those who do not speak them. Whether representing an obscure link to lost family history, a sacred symbol of a murdered people, or ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...

Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...

When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle ...

“The use of a Yiddish saying by the evil boss of an organization which controls the world’s timeline is clearly an antisemitic trope,” said the vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.