This forgotten musician was once a world-famous singer of both opera and Yiddish folk music. Isa Kremer was a diva who took America by storm.

The Jewish Studies Program, in conjunction with Jacobs School of Music, hosted poet and songwriter Psoy Korolenko in ...

There’s a moment in the musical Oliver! when Fagin launches into one of Lionel Bart’s deliciously minor-key melodies, and ...

Yehuda sits with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the renaissance of the Yiddish language—from ...

Yiddish culture fans should take a look at the Yiddish Book Center’s recently launched website. Called Yiddish: A Global Culture, Virtual Exhibit, it’s an online version of their marvelous permanent ...

The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...

With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For that reason, it is especially well-timed that the Yiddish Book Center has ...

There’s an old British expression, “a curate’s egg.” The story goes that a couple once hosted their vicar for dinner and ...

The linguist’s celebration of the polyglot city inspires a series of shows at Manhattan’s Little Island. Years before “The Power Broker” started appearing on the shelves of every journalist giving a ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t ...