Friends of Yiddish has no agenda. No textbooks. No Yiddish grammar rules. Its members gather every month at the B’nai Tikvoh-Sholom synagogue to speak a language stamped in their hearts and memories.

In nearly eight years of covering Yiddish events for the Forverts, I have never seen anything approaching the level of excitement accompanying the release of Duolingo’s Yiddish course, which will go ...

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 ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In 2015, they ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

The origin of Yiddish, the millennium old language of Ashkenazic Jews, is something which linguists have questioned for decades. Yiddish is thought to have been invented by Iranian and Ashkenazic Jews ...

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 ...

A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!" In English, the lyrics mean: "When the ...

ATLANTA - A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe tantst, tantsn ale khsidim!" In English, the lyrics mean: ...