The film allows users to have captions that show what is being said, usually by professors or actors, and that translate Yiddish when it is spoken. The film tells the history of modern Yiddish theater ...

He launched the New World Symphony in Miami in 1987 with the help of the Israeli businessman Ted Arison to aid young ...

Millie Baran, a Holocaust survivor who served for many years as a “camp mother” at the socialist Yiddish summer camp, ...

Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of ...

Penn Yiddish professor Kathryn Hellerstein discussed the role of translation in Yiddish women’s poetry and its influence on literary history at an event hosted by Kelly Writers House on Feb. 19.

The linguistics major discovered his interest in Yiddish poetry through his coursework at Brandeis. After taking Yiddish courses with professor Ellen Kellman, Bernstein continued to pursue his ...

The closure, which follows semester after years of financial troubles, won’t affect the Yiddish Book Center, which operates ...

Michael Tilson Thomas, composer, conductor and longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, died Wednesday April 22 ...

The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It's the ...

Yoel Matveyev, the Forverts’ correspondent in Russia, was sitting alone in a Moscow train station in the middle of the night, when he suddenly got the inspiration to translate the Russian song, ...