Does newspaper have a sound? Is it the rustling of paper? The pop-up ads of the digital world? The short films on the New York Times website? Or might it also be articles and editorials read aloud to ...

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 ...

(JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath ...

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This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As many of you know, this has been a challenging year for us here at the Forverts – most notably, because we had to end our printed edition ...

My Friend, J.B.M., who is as Nordic-Protestant-American as Oliver Wendell Holmes, recently of the United States Supreme Court (although not so old) startled me the other day by saying in a most casual ...