Diamond polishes position on ancient-modern culture war
Best-selling scholar Jared Diamond defends his controversial new book, regrets not knowing Yiddish, and prepares to meet Shimon Peres in May
View ArticlePhotos fete Jewish fight against fascism
Lost for decades, influential images from the Spanish civil war reveal Jewish bravery on both sides of the camera
View ArticleOrthodox flock to Japanese stylist
Holy sheitel! Observant Jewish women happily pay a minimum of $450 to have a New York guru perfect their fake hair
View ArticleBrazilian bestseller probes fate of Jewish ‘disappeared’
In his latest novel — newly available in English — Bernardo Kucinski fictionalizes the aftermath of his sister’s real-life death
View ArticleSometimes you need Yiddish to get the job done
A bissel of mamaloshen for the likes of Stephen Hawking
View ArticlePigeon blood peddled as wart cure
Yiddish-language paper carries ad hawking bird blood as alternative solution for warts, NY Post reports
View ArticleNY boy wins spelling bee with ‘knaidel’
Arvind Mahankali, 13, aces Yiddish dumpling, takes Scripps National Spelling Bee title
View ArticleKagan: US ‘political liberty’ led to Supreme Court
Jewish justice invokes Yiddish-speaking grandparents during reading of George Washington’s famed letter on religious liberty
View ArticleFrom the library of Dr. I. Grossman
Finding Yiddish treasures at a secondhand book sale and honoring their former owner, a certain doctor from New York
View ArticleRussian program to bring expats to Jewish enclave
Critics question government’s ability to lure successful, urban minority to remote region in country’s Far East
View ArticlePeppy life coach draws on cancer, Jewish roots
Eclectic experiences inspire offbeat, upbeat self-help expert Michelle Ward as she aids clients’ search for fulfillment
View ArticleGoogle, Moscow Jewish museum launch virtual exhibition
Site includes pictures, posters, and Hebrew and Yiddish literature on the history of Russian Jewish theater
View ArticleFirst Canadian narrative drama in Yiddish debuts in NY
Though the lead actors and director don’t know mammeloshen, the Holocaust love story is filmed with uncompromising authenticity
View ArticleYiddish song expert Chana Mlotek, 91, dies in NYC
Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer dubbed Mlotek and her husband ‘the Sherlock Holmeses of Yiddish folk songs’
View ArticleAustria honoring Theodore Bikel at Kristallnacht ceremony
The singer/stage and screen actor will perform a concert in Yiddish, performing the ‘Song of the Partisans’ as a finale
View ArticleRomania’s historic Yiddish theater smashed by snowstorm
State Jewish Theatre of Bucharest, one of the oldest in Europe, closes down after 74 years
View ArticleKissin offers Jewish composers, Yiddish poets in striking concert departure
The Washington Post: World’s leading pianist Evgeny Kissin, a Russian Jew who’s normally tight-lipped, is ‘surprisingly effusive’ when it comes to his people and Israel
View ArticleYiddish poetry wins international children’s book prize
‘Majn Alef Bejs,’ an alphabet of Yiddish poems, wins first place at 2014 Bologna Children’s Book Fair
View ArticleWarsaw exhibit by Jewish museum shows pre-WWII life
Polish cultural center will display films, pictures and sound recordings from early 20th century
View ArticleA Yiddish play that speaks from the gut
‘Monologues from the Kishke’ uses Eastern European delicacies to forge ties to Yiddish culture and traditions
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