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 ...

Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...

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 ...

In April 2022, right after the COVID virus sequestered us all in our homes, the Forward staff huddled about what we could do ...

Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...

The preservation of Yiddish as a spoken language gets more attention, but Yiddish once had a vibrant written tradition as well. Plays, poetry, novels, political tracts — all were published in Yiddish ...

World War II was still being fought when a new institution was envisioned in New York called the Museum of the Homes of the Past. It would depict ordinary life before the war in Yiddish-speaking ...

For Rakhmiel Peltz, a professor emeritus of sociolinguistics and founding director of Judaic studies at Drexel University, a realization led him to conclude that the switch he made within the world of ...

As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...