Yiddish

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

Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.

Irene Aue-Ben-David
A three-year-old haredi child found on his own at a bus terminal at the Kalandiya West Bank crossing, December 15, 2025

Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents

Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce (1853)

Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion

Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in "Playing Shylock," about an actor whose dream to play Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character is thwarted by timid producers.

Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock? 


Billy Crystal performs ‘Yiddish scat’ at the Tony Awards

Crystal ended his routine by leading Radio City Music Hall in a giant “Oy vey” chant.

Billy Crystal performs as part of the "Mr. Saturday Night" musical at the 75th Annual Tony Awards in New York City, US, June 12, 2022

Pete Davidson to star in autobiographical comedy series with a Yiddish name

The series is a “Curb Your Enthusiasm”-style R-rated comedy that “will combine grounded storytelling with absurd elements,” and reflect Davidson’s self-deprecating sense of humor.

 Pete Davidson arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Sept. 13, 2021.

French Jews say Macron used Yiddish in presidential debate with Le Pen

French President Emmanuel Macron interjected with "oy oy oy" while Marine Le Pen was speaking about economics in the debate.

 Emmanuel Macron

This singing trio wants to make Yiddish sexy again

To launch the project, the women started a GoFundMe page, with a goal to record and release a cover and music video of their rendition of “Abi Gezunt.”

 (L-R) Raquel Nobile, Jodi Snyder, and Maya Jacobson together form the trio "The Mamales" with a goal to eventually release a concept album of Yiddish song covers.

6 Jewish words no journalist can live without -opinion

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.

 Hebrew Typewriter

This Yiddish book center in Queens lives on, just like the language it celebrates

“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."

 Bookshelf

The Ukrainian Jew who saved Yiddish music from oblivion

“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.

 Local residents walk near residential buildings which were damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 18, 2022.

Grapevine February 13, 2022: No surprise

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FROM LEFT: Daniel Friedmann, Avi Dichter, Yaakov Edri and Yitzhak Aharonovitch in a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem in 2007.

How it really was: Preparing for life in Israel

The year was 1948, the place was a 160-acre (624 dunam) farm on the outskirts of Guelph, Ontario.

 Members of the original Kibbutz Kfar Darom, then located in the Gaza Strip, ride mules to work in the fields in 1947

Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions

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.

 “Vertle,” a Yiddish Wordle, had the potential of being as confounding as the Hebrew version.