In klezmer music, according to one website, the word is used to describe “the sound of a voice catching as it sobs.” It can also mean the particular fold in the black hats some Orthodox men wear that ...

(JTA) – There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Facebook today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a ...

(JTA) There’s a good chance that when you logged on to Facebook today, you were met with tweets showing off grids of yellow, green and black squares. There’s also a good chance that you posted a ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

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 ...

“Schmegoogle: Yiddish Words for Modern Times” by Daniel Klein is available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen (221 E. Main St., 970-925- 5336, explorebooksellers.com) and Bookbinders in Basalt (Willits ...

Men of Letters Gather at ‘Day’ Celebration; Dr. Judah L. Magnes Defines Tasks of New Department The establishment of a chair for the study of the Yiddish language and literature at the Hebrew ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

“Understanding popular music -- how it was manufactured and consumed -- is one of the key elements to understanding Israeli culture,” according to Lewis H. Glinert, a professor of Asian and Middle ...