Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

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 ...

This is an adaptation of the introduction to a recent Yiddish Brief, the free newsletter sent out by our Yiddish editor. Sign up here to get the Yiddish Brief delivered to your inbox. Every year, ...

We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we have so many words for them! Bestie. Sis. Bro. Partner-in-crime. We’ve got a ...

In accepting his Nobel Prize for literature in December 1978, the Yiddish novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer described Yiddish as “a language not supported by any government, a language which possesses no ...