Yiddish
Feeling at home in my Yiddish-speaking bubble
My fellow Yiddish students and I stumble as we try to speak correctly, but we all relish our weekly immersion in that lost East European world.
A side of my father – the Yiddish poet, Wolf Younin – that few people saw
Thanks to his blond hair and blue eyes and his fluency in several languages, he got roles in many films.
The “golden age” of Yiddish-speaking criminals
Jewish gangsters had their own folklore, songs and distinct Yiddish slang.
Today’s Google Doodle has a Yiddish soundtrack
Today’s Google Doodle offers an interactive ode to swing dance — and a bisl Yiddish. Please let me explain.
What we can learn from a communist puppy puppet
“I call him leftist Lassie.”
Sholem Asch’s groundbreaking play, “God of Vengeance”, now streaming in English
The first Broadway production was closed down for portraying unconventional characters and the first lesbian kiss on Broadway.
What the new Pew study missed by not asking about Yiddish
When I heard that the Pew Research Center was releasing its new report on American Jewish identity, and that it had added more measures of expressing Jewishness than it did in its landmark 2013 study, I was sure that “learning Yiddish” or “engaging in Yiddish culture” would be included. After all, most American Jews are Ashkenazi, whose ancestors hailed from Yiddish-speaking towns in eastern Europe. (Yiddish was not mentioned the first time around.)
The youngest Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ cast member on making a new tradition
“We all reveled in the beauty, anticipation, frustration, excitement, and joy of learning the opening number with our entire cast.”
James Carville tells Democrats to ‘start speaking Yiddish’
James Carville thinks the language of voter outreach should be the mamaloshen.
Yiddish song mystifies, then wows judges on Ukrainian version of ‘The Voice’
The song performed by the duo, the Alibi Sisters, was a Barry Sisters classic, “Chiribim Chiribom”.