This article initially appeared in Yiddish and can be read here. America held many surprises for Jewish immigrants arriving ...

A new CD was released this year of delightful Yiddish children’s songs, composed by the Vilna-born musician David Botwinik ...

Michael Alpert, an influential klezmer musician and ethnographer who has played a key role in the global renaissance of Yiddish music and culture, has been selected as this year’s recipient of the ...

There’s more to Jewish folklore than dybbuks and golems, or the even more obscure legends of the Leviathan and Nephilim. And these creatures, among many more, can be found outside of Jewish culture in ...

More than half a century after "Fiddler on the Roof" premiered on Broadway, the musical is finding new life in an old language. The well-known story, mesmerizing bottle dancing and iconic songs ...

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 ...

The women are dressed in kimonos and have donned black-bunned wigs, while the men have penciled on mustaches in preparation for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Yet something is a ...

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 ...

Actor Jackie Hoffman grew up hearing Yiddish, but not really speaking it. "I spoke what my mother calls kitchen Yiddish," Hoffman says — words here and there that she picked up from conversations ...

IF YOU take the subway around New York, you can sometimes hear groups of young Jewish women chatting quietly, their hair covered. At a distance, it sounds like they’re using German, perhaps Hebrew. In ...

The Judaica Collection is in a league of its own, not just in its organizational structure, but in its scope and scale.