An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
The plot involves two Jewish scholars determined to revitalize the language after its near destruction in the Holocaust
The goal is to help readers correctly pronounce Yiddish words that are derived from Hebrew and Aramaic
Linguist Yudel Mark aimed to include every single word of the Yiddish language
Users have contributed several entries for a new verb — ‘Israeled’ — since Oct. 7
The search engine defaulted to showing a derogatory use of 'jew' as a verb
Read this article in Yiddish The world has changed massively in five years – from new political movements to a global pandemic, and now your Yiddish can keep up with it. Five years after the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary was first published, comes a revised and expanded second edition. Both versions, edited by Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Dr….
I recently interviewed Yehudah Glick for the Forward. He’s, an Israeli Jewish activist who went on a hunger strike after being banned from the Temple Mount. While writing the introduction for the Q&A, I tried to dot all my i’s and cross my t’s, making sure to mention that the Haram al-Sharif (as the Temple…
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