This is a revised version of the original article in Yiddish which you can read here. Di Tsukunft (The Future) A book of short stories in Yiddish by Shiri Shapira Leyvik House, 2025 You may not have ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...

Elena remembers a moment when she fully disappeared. She describes it as “emerging into a wall or a transparent substance ...

Chinese professor and Yiddish scholar Meng Yang is visiting Stanford where she’ll discuss antisemitism in China.

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 ...