Do I understand Yiddish? Somewhat. So why do I treasure it? First, I love it because it was part of my childhood; second, I applaud the ingenuity of its creation; and third, I am convinced that no ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

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(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 ...

Error: Contact form not found. I speak French with my head and Yiddish with my heart. I learned French in school and made it my field of study and my profession. I know it well enough to call myself ...

Or maybe try it out on Tetiana Nepypenko, a 22-year-old graduate student who joined Mark in the intermediate-level Summer Program classes. But she did it online, from her home in Kyiv. The YIVO ...

Duolingo, the popular language learning app, offers a wide variety of languages in its list of courses. While it’s known for teaching well-known tongues such as French, Spanish, and Chinese, it has ...

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...

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 ...

This is a revised translated version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. One sunny day in spring 2021, without asking permission, artist Sebestyén Fiumei climbed a ladder in ...

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 ...