A conversational Yiddish class is held every Monday at the Workmen’s Circle, where about 15 students, most of them age 80 and older, gather. Photo by Tess Cutler On any given Monday afternoon, the ...

(New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky teaches for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Workers Circle, he begins by asking students to explain why they decided to ...

The coronavirus, terrible in just about every way, has been very good for Yiddish. Gay vays – go know, as they say — but the lockdown has meant record attendance for YIVO’s Uriel Weinreich Summer ...

For six weeks in November and December, the Yiddish Book Center will conduct an intensive beginners class online, using its prizewinning multimedia Yiddish textbook, “In Eynem” (a Yiddish expression ...

Read this article in Yiddish. The week before Hanukkah the Forverts shared a video of how I make potato latkes with my grandson, Leyzer. A number of commenters on Facebook wrote how nice it was that I ...

Celebrating 100 years of Yiddish instruction at University of Wisconsin, UW’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture looks back at its historical start and hopes to continue with the addition of new ...

Linda Wertz says she had a typical Jewish family upbringing as a child in New York City. “My parents only spoke Yiddish when they didn’t want us kids to know what they were talking about,” she said ...

A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!" In English, the lyrics mean: "When the ...

Starting next fall, Yalies can schmooze, kibitz and kvetch for a language credit. Currently, there is one main course sequence for Yiddish — a language historically used by Eastern European Jews that ...