It’s been over a year since the beloved Yiddish activist, and a personal friend of mine, Bella Bryks Klein passed away in ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the ...

There’s more to Jewish folklore than dybbuks and golems, or the even more obscure legends of the Leviathan and Nephilim. And these creatures, among many more, can be found outside of Jewish culture in ...

With an energetic new director at the helm, 29-year-old accordionist Dmitri Gaskin, KlezCalifornia is embracing the veteran ...

NEW YORK-- In a few weeks, a Broadway classic mired in tradition returns to the stage. "Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish" sold out shows in 2018 and was just about to tour the world in 2020 before the ...

Caught Stealing' features scene-stealing Hasidic gangsters — and this Yiddish expert helped Liev Schreiber and Vincent ...

People are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in many ways. Earlier this month, a fundraising album of songs for Gaza was released in Yiddish, a language nearly eradicated through genocide.

In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Yiddish Shakespeare Project will present SHAKESPEARE IN YIDDISH, a ...

An annual camp in New York State is part of the effort to preserve Yiddish – engaging people who have spoken it for years, and a new generation that is just starting to learn.

Not so long ago, Hanukkah celebrations in America were frequently about politics, Jewish strength and triumph, and Zionism. Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, associate professor of Yiddish Ellen ...

A recently released album, ‘Lider Mit Palestine,’ features several artists and 17 original compositions — some modern, some ...