It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has, for the most part, ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. After three years of hard work and months of beta testing, the League for Yiddish has launched an online version of its popular Comprehensive ...

Flip through the Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary, published by Uriel Weinreich in 1968, and you’ll notice it’s missing plenty of now-ubiquitous ...

Given its physical heft, it’s no surprise that the new Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary published last month by Indiana University Press is the work of generations. Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, ...