To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...

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Johnson defined ‘oats' as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"-but ...

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Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah extends Hindi Diwas greetings, emphasizing the importance of all Indian languages for national ...

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