The world has changed massively in five years – from new political movements to a global pandemic, and now your Yiddish can keep up with it. Five years after the Comprehensive English-Yiddish ...

The organization of a committee here to compile and publish a complete dictionary of the Yiddish language was announced today. This dictionary is planned to include all Yiddish words of all countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...

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 ...

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 ...