Editors waited decades for the final manuscript of Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters.” Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world.

After taking the internet by storm with their harmonic and jazz-infused takes on traditional Yiddish melodies, The Shvesters ...

Seed of Doubt, a short, Yiddish-language horror movie making film festival rounds, raises two thought-provoking questions: ...

When millions of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews perished in the Holocaust, their stories, culture and way of life ...

New podcast Cockney Yiddish explores this rich history with a winning mix of exuberance and scholarship. One minute, we're ...

Let me begin by saying I don’t speak Yiddish or understand more than a few words. My parents did their best to prevent me from learning it – they wanted me to be 100% American. But they spoke it when ...

In the small world of Yiddish literature, the discovery of the pages had the startling impact of a lost Hemingway manuscript ...

Hellerstein, who is also the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at Penn, has authored multiple translations, ...

In a unique course this spring, Yiddish scholar Leyzer Burko will explore the rich dialect of Ukrainian-Yiddish, once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland.

Henry Ruschmann, a New Jersey rancher and dabbling machinist, is credited with accidentally inventing modern glitter in 1934 ...