In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...

At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...

Does newspaper have a sound? Is it the rustling of paper? The pop-up ads of the digital world? The short films on the New York Times website? Or might it also be articles and editorials read aloud to ...

When one thinks of those who continue to speak Yiddish in the 2020s, you’re probably envisioning either older immigrants from Eastern Europe or perhaps inhabitants of certain ultra-Orthodox enclaves.

If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husband’s “haimish Yiddish”; in other words – ...

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 ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...

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.