My father Hershl (Harry in English, Heshek in Polish) was a Holocaust survivor of many camps and ghettos, as was my mother. Each made their way to America separately. My father, by way of Germany; my ...

When Polish-born musician Maria Ka released her latest album Di Mashin (The Machine), she wasn’t merely reviving Yiddish song ...

Yiddish will take the place of Polish as the language of instruction in all the schools maintained by the Warsaw Kehillah, according to a decision unanimously adopted today at the Kehillah session.

Poland’s only Yiddish newspaper, “Folkstimme,” has taken issue with an official of the Polish Ministry of Education who claimed that the Yiddish language was having a diminishing influence in Jewish ...

Adam Teller, associate professor of history and Judaic studies, was awarded the “Zasluziny dla Kultury Polskiej” — an Order of Merit for a Contribution to Polish Culture — last week. Given by the ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. As a way of marking 100 years since the ...

(JTA) A Jewish association has released what is being called the first report on antisemitism conducted with direct input from Polish Jewish community organizations, counting 488 incidents in 2022 ...

Fremantle Changes Polish Boss Julita Brutus is the new Managing Director of Fremantle Poland following the departure of Piotr ...

Julian Tuwim was an iconoclast, a revolutionary, a poet of the regime, a Jewish mystic who turned to communism in order to ...