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This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. It’s not every day that Yiddish dialectology becomes the subject of intense debate on Facebook and Twitter. But that’s just what happened ...

For about six months in 2018, I spent every Thursday night alone in Siberia. It wasn’t nearly as cold or desolate as its namesake, especially after the longtime New Orleans dive bar underwent a ...

There’s an old Yiddish folk saying that goes, “S’iz shver tzu zayn a Yid” (It’s tough to be a Jew). Anyone who knows German or Pennsylvania Dutch likely understands the Yiddish original. Yiddish is ...

Re “Yiddish Is Having a Moment,” by Ilan Stavans (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): Every so often there appears to be a magical Yiddish sighting, usually by writers seeking to inform the world that ...

Kvetch. Mensch. Mazel tov. Schmooze. Colorful Yiddish words and phrases have been in America’s collective cultural bloodstream throughout generations — and many more might soon follow. Duolingo, the ...

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, ...

Nadia Valman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research included in this article. Vivi Lachs received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for ...

The origin of Yiddish, the millennium old language of Ashkenazic Jews, is something which linguists have questioned for decades. Yiddish is thought to have been invented by Iranian and Ashkenazic Jews ...

In his precise, already canonical The Meaning of Yiddish (University of California Press, 1990), Israeli-American scholar Benjamin Harshav recalled how Max Weinreich (1894-1969), author of the ...

“The Gospel According to Chaim” is billed as the first full-length Yiddish drama written in the United States in 70 years. (New York Jewish Week) — The true story of a formerly Hasidic Baltimore man ...