A conversational Yiddish class is held every Monday at the Workmen’s Circle, where about 15 students, most of them age 80 and older, gather. Photo by Tess Cutler On any given Monday afternoon, the ...

Actor and comedian Jackie Hoffman has joked her entire career about never having played in “Fiddler on the Roof.” This summer, she’ll break that record when she steps into the role of Yente Off ...

The 33-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn’t teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle. (New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky ...

Read this article in Yiddish. The week before Hanukkah the Forverts shared a video of how I make potato latkes with my grandson, Leyzer. A number of commenters on Facebook wrote how nice it was that I ...

For six weeks in November and December, the Yiddish Book Center will conduct an intensive beginners class online, using its prizewinning multimedia Yiddish textbook, “In Eynem” (a Yiddish expression ...

Linda Wertz says she had a typical Jewish family upbringing as a child in New York City. “My parents only spoke Yiddish when they didn’t want us kids to know what they were talking about,” she said ...

Kerem Shalom will offer “Fun With Yiddish” classes via Zoom with Betty Silberman, assisted by Kerem Shalom Cantor Rosalie Gerut, on June 11, 18 and 25 and July 2. In the interactive and informative ...

(New York, N.Y.)— Is your dog meshugena or a mensch? Find this out on May 20 when the Workmen’s Circle presents Yiddish for Dogs, where you’ll learn how to communicate with your canines in Yiddish.

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 ...

Celebrating 100 years of Yiddish instruction at University of Wisconsin, UW’s Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture looks back at its historical start and hopes to continue with the addition of new ...