Kvetch. Mensch. Mazel tov. Schmooze. Colorful Yiddish words and phrases have been in America’s collective cultural bloodstream throughout generations — and many more might soon follow. Duolingo, the ...

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What does it take to launch a massive project to translate Yiddish masterpieces into English and publish them? A fairy godmother, according to David Roskies, the newly appointed editor in chief of the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. If you've ever used words like "schmuck" or "klutz," you may not know it, but you've been speaking ...

The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

As one might surmise from its title, “Schmegoogle” is not a serious book. Subtitled “Yiddish Words for Modern Times,” it’s a pun-filled compendium that amusingly mashes up modern English with words ...

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Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish ...

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 ...

Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, creating a rift with some Hebrew ...

Mark Dworzecki was a medical doctor from Poland before the Holocaust. But after surviving the Vilna Ghetto and several concentration camps, he settled in Paris, where he found a different calling.