Do I understand Yiddish? Somewhat. So why do I treasure it? First, I love it because it was part of my childhood; second, I applaud the ingenuity of its creation; and third, I am convinced that no ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

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(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...

Error: Contact form not found. I speak French with my head and Yiddish with my heart. I learned French in school and made it my field of study and my profession. I know it well enough to call myself ...

I grew up in Mexico City, and when people find out that one of my native languages is Yiddish, they think I am pulling their leg. Isn’t that a Jewish language? Mexico? Impossible. Maybe you should ...

Or maybe try it out on Tetiana Nepypenko, a 22-year-old graduate student who joined Mark in the intermediate-level Summer Program classes. But she did it online, from her home in Kyiv. The YIVO ...

Duolingo, the popular language learning app, offers a wide variety of languages in its list of courses. While it’s known for teaching well-known tongues such as French, Spanish, and Chinese, it has ...

Read the original Yiddish article. We’ve all heard the stereotypes about cowboys. But few people know that Texas has always been home to linguistic diversity, starting with Indigenous languages like ...

Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future.

In “Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in their Own Words — Selected Works Newly Translated into English,” Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using ...