It looks artful with art nouveau flourishes. The apostrophe and C are borrowed from the Hebrew alphabet, while the other letters are given a Yiddish accent with exaggerated serifs. The music ...

In the first place, Yiddish may be said to be a modified German, to which there have been added words and idioms belonging to the language of the nationality in which the Yiddish is spoken.

Lansky says studying Yiddish has become popular with college ... University of Hartford and author of “Secrets of the Cave of Letters,” will discuss important archaeological discoveries ...

Oy, schlep, shpiel, schmuck, shtick and glitch. Yiddish words have long made their way into English, but the language, spoken by Ashkenazi Jews across Europe for over a thousand years, was ...

Instead of convincing Jews to speak German, writers of this era sought to “civilize” the Yiddish language by introducing words from supposedly more “sophisticated” languages like German ...

Shannon Power is a Greek-Australian reporter, but now calls London home. They have worked as across three continents in print, newspapers and broadcast, specializing in entertainment, politics ...

The remedy for that was for the non-Yiddish speaking children to remember in particular angry words hurled at them, write them down and find a Yiddish speaker outside of the home who could serve ...

A lot of people know a few Yiddish words, but few actually speak it outside Orthodox Judaism. During the pandemic, some secular Jews have taken up learning the language to reconnect to their heritage.

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...