Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe and Russia, was once nearly extinguished. But now Jews drawn to the language for different reasons are keeping Yiddish alive. Before World War II, some ...
Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.
The YIVO Institute looks at the Jewish “language war” in Palestine before the founding of the Jewish state. (New York Jewish Week) — Just before the end of the second millennium, Ezer Weizman, then ...
It’s 1945, three years before the establishment of the state of Israel and at the very end of the Holocaust. Vilna Ghetto fighter Rozka Korczak-Marla comes to Tel Aviv, addressing the assembled in ...
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 ...
Eran Elhaik consults DNA Diagnostics Centre. Eran Elhaik was partially supported by a Genographic grant (GP 01-12), The Royal Society International Exchanges Award to E.E. and Michael Neely (IE140020) ...
(RNS) — The grounds of the Berkshire Hills Eisenberg Camp in Copake, New York, were alive in mid-August with a gaggle of nearly 100 campers, young and old. Like at many camps in upstate New York, they ...
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