Otzar Likkutei Sichos, an app built on a comprehensive curriculum by bochurim Shuey Geisinsky and Mendel Gottlieb, is a ...

A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. Academics and enthusiasts of Yiddish studies have long been pushing for the translation of Yiddish literature. Unfortunately, few efforts have met with ...

The 29-year-old translator is the son of a leading Yiddishist. (JTA) — As of today, the first book in the Harry Potter series is available in Yiddish. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” — or ...

The 33-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn’t teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle. (New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky ...

Yiddish — the language and culture — is part of the modern Jewish story, says chief curator David Mazower. And without it, ‘you don’t have the full story.’ What do a leather medicine ball, a steamer ...

Sacvan Bercovitch, an influential scholar in the field of American studies and a translator of Sholem Aleichem and other Yiddish writers, died Dec. 9 at 81. Bercovitch’s early works — “The Puritan ...