Mazel tov. Congratulations. Yiddish 101 in Room 105 lives. Only three students had shown up Monday for the first session of Miriam Isaacs’ new credit course, Elementary Yiddish 101, at Baltimore ...

BALTIMORE – “The hourglass on Yiddish is running low,” says Miriam Isaacs, a professor on a quest to save a dying language. In her Elementary Yiddish 101, a course being taken by a few students at ...

If you find it difficult to understand your Bubeleh’s (little grandma’s) mumblings, don’t be a kvetch (complainer), said Weston resident Ben Wernikoff . Try Yiddish 101, a language class at Temple ...

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 ...

If I tell you that there are languages other than English that someone in America could live a whole life in, which would come to mind? Spanish, maybe? Chinese? Both are spoken in (among many other ...

Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It might seem meshuga — crazy — to stage a beloved musical in a language that most of the audience won't understand. But Tevye the dairyman and his family will speak Yiddish in an ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The scenes were jarring, as intended, and meant to provoke fear: neo-Nazis parading in front of Disney World and crowding a highway bridge in Orlando, shouting antisemitic slurs, ...