Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is usually remembered as a towering figure of European culture: poet, playwright, scientist, and ...

People don’t always turn against others, they simply decide to forget them. Parshas Shemot opens with a verse that feels ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programming including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy. The streamer will make documentary features and short ...

The story of Black–Ashkenazi Jewish relations is not a simple tale of alliance or betrayal—it is a window into how race, ...

Last week, local historians and researchers Vasyl Selyavin and Oleksander Shiva discovered the devastation: gravestones had ...

Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...

Though no Jews live there today, the African territory has a history of Jewish merchants and a tribal clan with a crypto-Jew ...

When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...

To most people, Yiddish and German are closely related. The languages share many root words and grammatical structures, and most speakers of one language can at least understand an individual speaking ...

A history of Yiddish literature written by Dr. I. Schipper, well-known historian and journalist of Poland, will be published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute to mark Dr. Schipper’s fiftieth ...

Gresham Bader’s “Our Spiritual Heroes-Seven centuries of Jewish Thought” (Minister Publishing Co., Brooklyn ) is all the title claims for it, and more. It is a fascinating and admirably written book ...