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 ...

Such terms are not found in most Yiddish dictionaries that you would find on library bookshelves. But when Yiddish scholar and poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath set out to publish the first ...

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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 ...

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 – ...