The Berkshire Edge

BITS & BYTES: Juilliard’s Risk Lab at Kaatsbaan; Jazz Vespers at Zion Lutheran Church; Free admission to The Clark; Free admission to American Mural Project; Yiddish Boo…

You’re invited to an exclusive look at artistic risk-taking in action as Juilliard presents an informal showing of works ...
The Conversation

Cockney Yiddish: how two languages influenced each other in London’s East End

Nadia Valman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research included in this article. Vivi Lachs received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren’t Evacuated to New York After World War II

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world In 1947 New Jersey, leaders of the New York-based YIVO ...
New York Post

How New York’s YIVO Institute is keeping Yiddish culture alive

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...
The Forward

Workers Circle now offers Yiddish courses that meet twice a week

People seeking to learn Yiddish online will find that most courses meet once a week. That may be perfect for people with a busy schedule or for those who prefer a relaxed environment in which to learn ...
Religion News Service

Once a beacon of the Yiddish speaking world, Lithuania's Jews work to keep it alive

VILNIUS, Lithuania (RNS) — If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the ...
Snopes.com

JD Vance's Last Name Means 'Bedbug' in Yiddish?

The Yiddish word "vants" means bedbug. What's False However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his ...
Business Insider

Everything to know about Google parent company Alphabet: What it does, who owns it, value, largest shareholders

Alphabet Inc. was first created after a major restructuring at Google. Alphabet is now a parent company consisting of two segments: Google and Other Bets. Alphabet is a trillion-dollar company, and ...
Public Radio International

A Yiddish revival is underway at this prestigious Chinese university

Huang Zijing, 19, is a medical student at Peking University, but he also practices the aleph-beys, the Yiddish alphabet. Huang took a class on Jewish culture last year at Peking — known as the Harvard ...
Monash University

How Yiddish Made a Home in Melbourne

The following essay by Arnold Zable was featured in the catalogue for the exhibition MAMELOSHN – HOW YIDDISH MADE A HOME IN MELBOURNE at the Jewish Museum of Australia. We begin mid-ocean, moving over ...