The festival "Yiddish Summer" in Weimar in 2011. There are over 1,000 German words, originally from Yiddish, which are actively used today. We look at the 10 of the most frequently used ones.

(JTA) — Andrea Pancur, a Munich-based singer, teacher and activist who helped bridge the worlds of German and Yiddish song culture — and who served as role model for women in the world of klezmer ...

Germans who want to learn Yiddish now have an additional resource: Leo Rosten’s “The Joys of Yiddish” is hitting bookstores in Germany, 35 years after it first appeared in English. BERLIN, Oct. 29 ...

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 ...

At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...

Neither German, nor Hebrew; a language without a country or a flag, which is often met with disregard. That is Yiddish, the tongue once spoken by 13 million European Jews, and since been reduced ...

BERLIN — Deborah Feldman has learned to follow the sun. December marks the 31-year-old Brooklyn-raised writer’s fourth winter living in Berlin, a place notorious for its long, gray months, and by now ...

Netflix has announced the start of production on its Yiddish- and English-language German series “Unorthodox,” which is shooting in Berlin. The streaming giant is partnering with “Deutschland 83” ...

A smattering of Yiddish words has crept into the American vernacular: Non-Jews go for a nosh or schmooze over cocktails. Yet the language itself, once spoken by millions of Jews, is now in retreat.