Kinderbuch Publications has announced the publication of a “Student’s Dictionary, English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English,” a book geared especially for young people. Each part contains approximately 10,000 ...

Flip through the Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary, published by Uriel Weinreich in 1968, and you’ll notice it’s missing plenty of now-ubiquitous ...

The last time an English-Yiddish dictionary was published was in 1968. The “Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary” by the late Yiddish linguist Uriel ...

It isn’t easy being a language without a country. Unlike English, Hebrew and hundreds of other languages that have governments to protect them and nurture their growth, Yiddish has, for the most part, ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husband’s “heymish Yiddish”; in other words – ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. If you've ever used words like "schmuck" or "klutz," you may not know it, but you've been speaking ...

The word tsunami became part of the core vocabulary of English. Linguists noted that the word has an initial consonant cluster, ts-, which is not native to English. While some speakers dropped the -t- ...

As one might surmise from its title, “Schmegoogle” is not a serious book. Subtitled “Yiddish Words for Modern Times,” it’s a pun-filled compendium that amusingly mashes up modern English with words ...