The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

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Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy League ...

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 ...

Cornell’s first-ever cohort of Yiddish language learners have entered another semester of mastering alphabets and reading poetry written in the medieval Jewish tongue. The Jewish Studies Program ...

Were you to visit the farm in Goshen, New York, just 50 miles from Manhattan, it would look like any other upstart hipster back-to-the-land project. A chicken coop, a handful of sheep, a charmingly ...

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When my dad was growing up in Leningrad in the former Soviet Union, he’d beat up the neighborhood kids for calling him a “zhyd”—a pejorative term for Jew that’s akin to “kike.” His flair for fighting ...

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