Journalism has its own specialized vocabulary, with talk of “ledes” and “nut grafs,” “sigs” and “kickers.” But there are also Jewish words for which there are no satisfactory substitutes.
“Little Yiddish organizations have come and gone by the hundreds, if not more,”Hy Wolfe said. “The only ones that still exist today are the ones where they have stubborn old Jews like me."
“Song Searcher” isa new documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, Jewish folklorist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930s and ’40s collecting Yiddish folk music and klezmer songs.
The year was 1948, the place was a 160-acre (624 dunam) farm on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario.
Popular word game 'Wordle' has become immensely popular, with over 2 million players posting their results online. Now developers have contributed Yiddish and Hebrew versions.
In order to bring Yiddish musical theater into the world of jazz, Yisroel Leshes had to reinvent the genre.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research founded in Vilna before World War II and collected millions of Yiddish texts.
Rockland County has a very dense ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, especially in places like Monsey and Spring Valley. The Yiddish copies of the New Testament are linked to missionary organizations.
This week, the contestants are all college professors as part of the show’s first-ever professors tournament, and the host is Mayim Bialik.
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