Translators are villains, lechers, traitors. Like the spinster who translates Yankel Ostrover’s stories in Cynthia Ozick’s “Envy; or, Yiddish in America,” they are vain. “Who has read James Joyce, ...

Gresham Bader’s “Our Spiritual Heroes-Seven centuries of Jewish Thought” (Minister Publishing Co., Brooklyn ) is all the title claims for it, and more. It is a fascinating and admirably written book ...

A history of Yiddish literature written by Dr. I. Schipper, well-known historian and journalist of Poland, will be published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute to mark Dr. Schipper’s fiftieth ...

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...

To most people, Yiddish and German are closely related. The languages share many root words and grammatical structures, and most speakers of one language can at least understand an individual speaking ...

The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

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What if Alaska is home of a big Jewish settlement and the fledgling state of Israel was destroyed? That is the setup of a TV series project based on Michael Chabon’s acclaimed 2007 alternative history ...