Yiddish
The intimate, internal quarrel shows Jews doing what they have always done—but while they’re standing among people who have been dedicated to their murder.
Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Kadya Molodowsky’s “humor, irony, and deeply rooted sense of Jewishness.”
Why do Yiddish speakers refer to children by terms of endearment seemingly meant for adults?
A versatile fellow, this Cossack, identified simultaneously with Israel’s prime minister and his bitterest opponents! Who is he and who robbed him?
A brief history of an indifferent word.
The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.
And most of them reveal a hidden admiration for the person who’s had the wit and the grit to get away with it.
Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.
Let us sing of rodomont, Sinon, proditomania, and, in particular, grobian.
Lucy Dawidowicz.
One word got turned upside down and downside up again.
The renowned expert on Yiddish literature stops by to talk everything Tevye, Fiddler, Sholem Aleichem, and more.
