As Rosh Hashanah approaches, it’s a great opportunity to learn some common Yiddish words and expressions related to the holiday. So this week, two clips of my YouTube series, Yiddish Word of the Day, ...

(RNS) — A few days ago, I found myself watching old clips from “Saturday Night Live.” One of my favorites is Mike Myers as Linda Richman, which is apparently a loving tribute to his mother-in-law, ...

Houston, TX, August 20, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Opening Sunday, August 23rd is the Art exhibit by Brazilian Judaica artist, Deborah Rolnik Raichman, on Yiddish Shprichverter, ( Yiddish Expressions).

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 ...

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I’ve recently pondered: “When is a person old enough to flavor one’s language with Yiddish expressions?” There have been many times where a Yiddish expression was so on-target that I would use it, but ...

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"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground!" Or, as it goes in the original Yiddish: "Zolst vaksn vi a tzibele mitn kop in dr'erd!" That's just one of the colorful curses to be found in ...

Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called “Dictionary ...

Having seen every Broadway production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” I was skeptical when my wife said she wanted to see the newest off-Broadway version, which is completely in Yiddish. I understand some ...

In “Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in their Own Words — Selected Works Newly Translated into English,” Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using ...