(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...

The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

This is a revised version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. Di Tsukunft (The Future) A book of ...

Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy League ...

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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 ...

Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always been home to linguistic diversity, starting with Indigenous languages like ...

The German Academy (Akademie zur wissenschaftlischen Erforschung und zur Pflege des Deutschtums) has published the draft programme of a projected Yiddish Section of its Near-Languages Institute. The ...

“Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish” by Dovid Katz (Basic Books, $26.95). Given the sentimentality of much recent writing on the subject, American Jews might be forgiven for believing that ...

(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...