Yiddish

Ruth Seymour will also be remembered as a trailblazer in public radio’s embrace of digital platforms.

The author took on the role of the memorial candle with devotion, and as she grew up became determined to learn everything she could about her lost cousins, especially her cousin Franya.

How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.

Israel's official X account called the writer who bashed Hebrew "Meshuggeneh [crazy person]."

Although raised Catholic, Pancur felt an affinity with the Yiddish musical culture that thrived for centuries across Europe before its devastation by the Holocaust.

As queerness is increasingly persecuted in the United States, Yiddish culture has been my refuge: a culture with no country that is well-suited for people being rejected by theirs.

In Hebrew, Yiddish humor has found a different creativity. But within it, the castigation of hypocrisy and the sardonic wit, evolved and different, still sparkle.

Defining Jewish humor, Israeli humor, Yiddish humor, and where they differ and overlap.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.