Her goal is to show her city, and the world, that Yiddish music is beautiful, poetic and deserves to be heard.

How many Yiddish rock stars do you know? Maybe more than you think. If you watched the Grammy Awards back in 2018, you might ...

Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and ...

The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices; musicians are now bringing the songs of a lost civilization back to life The Holocaust destroyed far more than lives. It shattered one of Europe’s ...

I grew up in Mexico City, and when people find out that one of my native languages is Yiddish, they think I am pulling their leg. Isn’t that a Jewish language? Mexico? Impossible. Maybe you should ...

"The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust effort to preserve Yiddish through language. (New York Jewish Week) — In ...

Many people see Yiddish as mainly a portal into unearned nostalgia, an easy look back into an imaginary, troublefree time when the shtetl was full of milkmen’s carts pulled by wisecracking Zero ...

Popular language-learning platform Duolingo rolled out a Yiddish course for English speakers this week, and I’m kvelling. The course, which debuted April 6, guides students through speaking, reading ...

How did the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research find a new home in the United States after the Holocaust? Kalman Weiser (York University, Toronto) narrates this dramatic story in a new book, Yiddish ...

In summer 2020, when the world was in lockdown, I couldn’t stop watching a video that featured two young children — Dinah Slepovitch and Pinya Minkin — singing a Yiddish folk song about eating ...

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, ...

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 ...