Goshen, the fabled Egyptian area that the ancient Israelites settled and farmed when famine struck the Holy Land, was so fertile, according to the Bible, that the Israelites multiplied at rates that ...
Yiddish has been spoken for more than a thousand years, but anyone thinking it’s a dead language in today’s world need only look to the Workmen’s Circle to see that’s not true at all. In fact, the ...
From noshing to schmoozing to schlepping, many Americans know a handful of Yiddish words. But outside of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, few people actually speak Yiddish as a language. And yet, Deena Prichep ...
AMHERST--Interest in Yiddish is "growing by leaps and bounds," says the president of The Yiddish Book Center. "Just as we pioneered new technology to save Yiddish books and made them accessible to all ...
As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...
Imagine doing a big, beloved Broadway musical … in Yiddish. Sounds crazy, no? Not when that show is “Fiddler on the Roof.” Since its 1964 debut, the story of Tevye and his daughters and Yente the ...
Students participating in the Helix Project perform a Yiddish song at a home in Studio City. If you ask American Jews, or really just most Americans, to picture what it was like to live as a Jew in ...
From noshing to schmoozing to schlepping, many Americans know a handful of Yiddish words. But outside of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, few people actually speak Yiddish as a language. And yet, Deena Prichep ...
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.
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