It was in November 2016 that my grandmother started teaching me Yiddish. When she shared those wise words with me, an anxious mess of a teenage boy from San Antonio, I didn’t realize it, but my ...

In Cleveland, where I live, students in an eighth-grade Hebrew-school class recently pretended to be shtetl dwellers and spoke Yiddish for a day. This month the International Association of Yiddish ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. The nagging sterotype -- 1. "My Yiddishe mama" : the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- 2. Molly Goldberg : "the prototype of the Jewish ...

Women always have been the private voice of Yiddish, which is, after all, called the mameloshn (mother tongue). When we think of women and Yiddish, we hear Jewish mothers crooning lullabies, ...

Bernie Madoff's empire came crumbling down, a little dust landed on the collective head of Yiddishe Cup. But like everything else over these last 20 years, band leader Bert Stratton took it all in ...