The Forward launches the Yiddish Community Calendar
We want to be your go-to source for Yiddish-themed events, whether online or in-person, in English or in Yiddish
Yiddish World
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Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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Workers Circle hosts wide array of Zoom spring courses for Yiddish speakers
Courses include advanced grammar with linguist Yitskhok Niborski and works of humor and satire with Michael Wex.
The Latest
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VIDEO: In historic first, a female Orthodox rabbi opens prayer at a state legislature
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
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New film about postwar shtetls in the former USSR is now streaming
The film "Shtetlers" reveals the Jewish culture that Jews and non-Jews shared in these towns.
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My mother and grandmother never made challah. Here’s why I do, and why I love it.
Baking challah meant nothing special until I discovered a recipe named for the European city my father was from.
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Three books on Yiddish-related themes win National Jewish Book Awards
Among the winners: Kenneth Moss’ retelling of Polish Jewish history, focusing on the painful trade-offs Jews were forced to make.
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Why the poet Anna Margolin wrote a 1915 column about actress Sarah Bernhardt’s leg
Margolin hoped it would help women think more about female courage, self-fulfillment and even self-sacrifice for a higher cause.
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Rekindling our Jewish friendships
The wonderful thing about old friends is that they knew our parents as young adults and they even remember our childhood rooms.
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Call for papers for Polish conference honoring Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb
The City Council of Lodz has unanimously voted to make 2023, Rosenfarb’s centenary, to be The Year of Chava Rosenfarb.
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Online Yiddish theater workshop and Yiddish courses at a low price
In the theater workshop, students will act out the Yiddish translation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
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