Yiddishkayt LA and New Lehrhaus merge — but is it good for Yiddish?
Amid the excitement, the new partnership has aroused concerns about the future of Yiddish programming
Yiddish World
-
From Buenos Aires to Warsaw, ‘The Bride’ comes home
The painting by Maurycy Minkowski (circa 1920) was almost lost during the 1994 bombing of the AMIA in Buenos Aires
-
-
Musician-ethnographer Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
Michael Alpert has been a pioneering singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnographer and educator for over five decades
The Latest
-
Rabbi Mayer Moskowitz z”l, on Hasidic life in pre-war Czernowitz
The beloved rabbi and educator described in detail the Orthodox Jewish community of this once vibrant city
-
From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
-
A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
-
A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
The Haus der Kunst in Munich now has Yiddish insults mounted on its cornice
-
Maria Ka’s cosmic Yiddish music — from punk grit to starlight
Performing out of Gdańsk, Poland, the singer-songwriter fuses everyday Yiddish speech with celestial wonder
-
Culture Was the ‘Yiddish Sherlock Holmes’ the first Jewish superhero?
Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
-
VIDEO: Social media activist asks Jerusalem passers-by why Yiddish is important
Content creator Yirmiyahu Danzig says Yiddish could bridge the psychological divide between Haredi and non-Haredi Jews
-
Yiddish life in prewar Eastern Europe comes alive on this website
Through photos, maps and many short essays, its pages are not static memorials, but invitations to explore
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 2
Politics AIPAC fails its first test in the midterms
- 3
Culture The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part
- 4
Fast Forward Jewish congresswoman storms out of Epstein hearing after Pam Bondi raises her record on antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Debate over the Blue Square Super Bowl ad is fading. The racist responses from my fellow Jews will be felt longer.
-
Fast Forward French, German, Jewish leaders call for resignation of UN’s Francesca Albanese over ‘common enemy’ comments
-
Culture Is there life after Lubavitch?
-
Fast Forward Homeland Security hires social media manager whose posts raised alarm for promoting ‘white-nationalist rhetoric’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
