A concert version of National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s acclaimed production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' in Yiddish has its ...

Explore the YidLife Crisis and its unique take on Jewish culture in Sweden. Discover the comedy behind Yiddish heritage.

There’s more to Jewish folklore than dybbuks and golems, or the even more obscure legends of the Leviathan and Nephilim. And these creatures, among many more, can be found outside of Jewish culture in ...

It was the release of the much-anticipated 12th issue of the Punks at the Beach zine series, titled “Wet.” When Ash and some other zinesters less familiar with the series asked what it was about, I ...

NEW YORK — Yiddish was the language spoken by Tevye the milk peddler and the other shtetl characters depicted in the stories that inspired “Fiddler on the Roof,” yet in this country the landmark ...

If Yiddish has a future on college campuses, it may literally go unspoken. In Yiddish studies programs across the country, a new generation of scholars are learning Yiddish as a language of ...

The Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia stands at the intersection of many cultures and tongues. The triangular plaza is ...

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...

NEW YORK-- In a few weeks, a Broadway classic mired in tradition returns to the stage. "Fiddler on the Roof, in Yiddish" sold out shows in 2018 and was just about to tour the world in 2020 before the ...

At the end of the 19th century, a young woman chose, against her mother’s wishes, to become an actress. She ended up becoming the most popular Yiddish actress of all time. Today, even those people who ...

The women are dressed in kimonos and have donned black-bunned wigs, while the men have penciled on mustaches in preparation for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Yet something is a ...

In an Australian community working to preserve its identity, a journalist found subjects with plenty of questions for her. By Natasha Frost The ground rules were simple: I would report an article on ...