Yiddish

There was always a third Singer: Yiddish literary diamonds revealed - review

Esther Kreitman, sister of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, wrote powerful Yiddish fiction capturing Jewish life, struggle, and survival.

Esther Kreitman (nee Singer), born in 1891 in Biłgoraj, Poland, to a rabbinic family, became a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer.
‘To be worthy, every individual must work on himself.’

Parashat Vayikra: Mutual responsibility

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Living on pins and needles: Israel faces uncertainty at the prospect of war - opinion

Irene Aue-Ben-David

Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview


Why do people love dead Jews?

Novelist and academic Dara Horn's new book gets to the core question underlying every antisemitic act: For many gentiles “Jews were people who were supposed to be dead."

 A MAN WALKS past graves desecrated with swastikas at the Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, near Strasbourg, France, in 2019.

Forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem published in English for first time

Sholom Aleichem, the pen name of Shalom Rabinowitz (1859-1916), was a masterful storyteller whose keen eye, wit and humor earned him the reputation as the Jewish Mark Twain.

STATUE OF Sholom Aleichem, Kiev.

Grapevine October 3, 2021: October 6 – a significant date

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

ACTRESS AND producer Noa Tishby walks the floor after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 2009.

Ruth Wisse on the miracle of modern Jewish history

The iconic Yiddish literature expert talks about her latest translation, her upcoming memoir, and the enduring success of Yiddish literature.

 A YOUNG Polish Jew reads from a book in Yiddish, in the Jewish library at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Krakow.

Jewish South African history and legacy explored in new documentary

A new documentary Johanessburg-based producer Mark Wade 'Legends & Legacies: A Story of a Community' examines South African Jews' trials, tribulations and triumps.

The TV series on the history of South African Jews launched on July 11.

Legends & Legacies: Exploring the history of South African Jews on TV

The television series launched on July 11, 2021 as an online charity premiere for the Union of Jewish Women, which my late mother, Roseve (Saacks) Linde, once headed.

The TV series on the history of South African Jews launched on July 11.

Isabel Frey, the Jewish Viennese musician who thrives on Yiddish

Frey is not only here to perform for a live audience, she is also taking an intensive Yiddish course at the University of Tel Aviv.

ISABEL FREY: I discovered Yiddish, and the culture, more through my own past.

Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa

How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.

A contemporary photograph shows the ruins of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., after a white mob and local law enforcement attacked and killed hundreds of the neighborhood's Black residents, June 1921.

Alternate History: Zion by the shores of Alaska

While the stories in Alternate History are conjectural, they may have some basis in fact and this is the case in The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a 2007 novel by Michael Chabon.

President Chaim Weizmann with Nahum Goldman at the Weizmann residence in Rehovot in 1951

Isabel Frey is a 26-year-old Yiddish singer and Austrian politician

Frey, 26, grew up in Vienna’s 6th District, near the city’s center, and was part of the socialist Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement.

Isabel Frey's music became a hit at demonstrations against Austria's conservative ruling parties.