To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...

Since about the 1970s, a new and largely, what the historian Jeffrey Shandler terms, a “post-vernacular Yiddish culture” has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world.

Two recently posted articles in the Jewish Internet magazine Tablet provide an excellent introduction to anyone interested in the fascinating and problem-fraught field of Yiddish historical ...

If you are having a shmooze over some nosh, but maybe you do not like schmaltz then, whether you know it or not, you are talking Yiddish. This includes Lithuania, which was once home to more than ...

For a long time the Yiddish schools, children’s homes and evening classes in Eastern Galicia have been under the management of three different committees-the Poale Zion, the Borochow organization and ...

Yiddish, a language once spoken throughout vast areas of Central and Eastern Europe, is likely one of the most fascinating linguistic laboratories of all time. Its amazing creative potential can be ...

Yiddish enthusiasts around the world are kvelling and plotzing at the revival of their favorite language in recent popular culture. But what makes Yiddish so unique and exciting? Many people are ...