Two recently posted articles in the Jewish Internet magazine Tablet provide an excellent introduction to anyone interested in the fascinating and problem-fraught field of Yiddish historical ...
Malevitz has asked a good question. The different pronunciation of words like flaysh/fleysh or khayn/kheyn is one of the main features defining the border between what is known as “Central Yiddish,” i ...
One Tuesday evening in the spring of 1925, some 30 Jewish scholars and activists met in the Eastern European city of Vilna to discuss the possibility of establishing an academic institute to support ...
For a long time the Yiddish schools, children’s homes and evening classes in Eastern Galicia have been under the management of three different committees-the Poale Zion, the Borochow organization and ...
Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...
Yiddish, a language once spoken throughout vast areas of Central and Eastern Europe, is likely one of the most fascinating linguistic laboratories of all time. Its amazing creative potential can be ...
One Tuesday evening in the spring of 1925, some 30 Jewish scholars and activists met in the Eastern European city of Vilna to discuss the possibility of establishing an academic institute to support ...
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