Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century. YIVO (the ...
“I’ve come to love Yiddish culture,” said a Lithuanian student, one of 40 who graduated from YIVO’s in-person summer program last week. When Tara Neuwirth arrived in New York City in June for six ...
The work of a Yiddishist often takes unexpected twists, some quite delightful. My current stint has brought me into the world of theater as the Yiddish language coach for a new play, Hester Street, by ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...
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The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary in the aftermath of World War II. By Rob Tannenbaum Arguments, on topics ...
Ann Toback and Kolya Borodulin stand on the shore of Sylvan Lake in New York. The two have been leading the Workers Circle's “Trip to Yiddishland,” a weeklong Yiddish immersion retreat, for more than ...
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