Yiddish

Watching a Hebrew play from 1981 performed in Yiddish may not be the most bizarre thing I’ve done for the Forward, but it was surprisingly important.

The Yiddish theater’s first goal was to develop a modern secular Yiddish culture and bring some hope to the Jewish community during difficult times.

“Goy,” Yael Yekel’s parody of Netta Barzilai’s “Toy,” has been viewed more than 400,000 times.

Talya ZaxApril 25, 2018

To disappoint Tevye would be to disappoint God.

Jenny SingerApril 16, 2018

Winkler’s use of Yiddish is surprisingly controversial.

Forverts StaffMarch 28, 2018

An old Jewish judge who refuses to open his eyes - just one of the touching images he describes about his shtetl, Rashkev.

Forward StaffMarch 23, 2018

Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forward will be appearing at the Own It summit 2018 on Sunday March 25.

Jenny SingerMarch 16, 2018

It’s a miracle of miracles.

There was a time when even atheists would lead a traditional seder. Today that is no longer.

Yoel MatveyevMarch 13, 2018

Google’s new translation program may be top of the line but it still mixes up the Yiddish words for “brothel” and “dictionary.”