The quartet of classically trained musicians delighted audience members with favorite tunes from childhood at The Education ...

The ‘Rose Cohen Experience’ makes use of ambient recordings, an old sewing machine and a Yiddish women’s prayer ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...

For the past 15 years, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene has raised awareness to this moment in American history and ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

Theatre Or will present the Colorado premiere of The Last Yiddish Speaker from March 28 through April 19, written by Deborah ...

Richmond Yiddish Week runs Saturday, Jan. 10, through Friday, Jan. 16, with one event each day highlighting the historic ...

NEW YORK - The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx was defaced with paint and pro-Palestinian graffiti one week ago. In his first on-camera interview, the co-president of the center tells CBS ...

Virginia’s capital city is having a few big inaugurals this January. Not only will Richmond see the state’s first female ...

While there’s never been a Yiddish festival in Richmond — or even Virginia — there’s a growing international movement of people like Shokin and Kraft (Yiddishists) who are committed to the study and ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...