Berkeley's New Lehrhaus has brought L.A.'s Yiddishkayt, the largest Yiddish cultural institution in the West, under its wing.
The Yiddish Book Center is something of a misnomer. The Amherst, Massachusetts, institution runs language classes, trains translators, produces podcasts, hosts the summer music festival Yidstock, and ...
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These Jewish artists are searching for home — at America’s only Catholic historically Black university
Jewish exchange on campus — but the funding that brought Neta Elkayam and Amit Hai Cohen to New Orleans is running out.
The linguistics major discovered his interest in Yiddish poetry through his coursework at Brandeis. After taking Yiddish courses with professor Ellen Kellman, Bernstein continued to pursue his ...
A teen leader of a high school cultural club discovers how food, language and tradition can connect communities.
How Yiddish slogans captured a controversial cover story — and the precarious state of American Jews
Is it “a hop, skip and a jump” from Charles Lindbergh to Kanye West? According to the somewhat tongue-in-cheek Yiddish slogans plastered across the cover of the April issue of The Atlantic, yes. In ...
Temple Hesed and the Jewish Community Center of Scranton will celebrate Yiddish culture Wednesday night as part of a pilot project spanning a dozen Jewish organizations across North America. Funded ...
As you descend a ramp into the main exhibition space of the Yiddish Book Center, you walk alongside a display of 49 books.
On Nov. 2, the 13th edition of the “What’s not to Like?” concert took place at Beth El Synagogue, just a short walk from East Campus. The event, centered around the theme of “Resistance and Freedom,” ...
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...
NEW YORK — On the third floor of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Stefanie Halpern, director of archives, carefully held up a nearly century-old agricultural map of what was then Belorussia.
“This was the mecca of Yiddish culture other than New York in this country,” says David Weintraub, executive director of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, offering a surprising fact ...
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