During the nineteenth century, the growth of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe sparked a movement of Jewish emigration; between 1877 and 1917, around 2.5 million Jews reached the shores of America, ...
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 ...
The circulation of the Soviet Jewish press is growing, the number of Yiddish books printed is increasing, but the Jewish township and the Jewish cultural workers evince no great desire to spread ...