The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present Di Shvegerins, a Yiddish translation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Sœurs, ...

Many people today prize the Yiddish of native speakers who grew up in Eastern Europe before World War II, viewing it as a ...

Tucked on the top floor of a warehouse in an ungentrified stretch of Long Island City, a block from the mouth of the Queens ...

Old Words for New Fears. Recently, I began noticing something intriguing in a number of Israeli and Jewish publications. Alongside discussions of trauma, resi ...

In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand ...

Khantshe in Amerike’ was produced by, and starred Bessie Thomashevsky, grandmother of the late Michael Tilson Thomas ...

Raised in the Satmar Hasidic community, Perry Kay spent years leaving and returning before finally building a life on her own ...

We speak with the acclaimed artist and author Molly Crabapple about her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Although largely forgotten today, the Jewish Labor ...

For years, I polished the brass plaques in front of my apartment dedicated to a Jewish mother and daughter who were murdered by the Nazis. Then a message out of the blue connected me to a surviving ...

The Oscar nominee transforms in James Gray's complex family portrait, and wasn't afraid of big risks: “James would sometimes ...