Yiddish

An album cover features the fig tree, a native plant signifying the security of home; the keys, a symbol and instrument of return; the fishnet pattern (found in the keffiyeh), a connection to the sea; water, source of life, in the droplets and waves; the stars, witnesses over us all; and the shofar, used as a wake-up call.

A new collection of Yiddish songs casts Israel as the ‘evildoer’ in Gaza

“Lider mit Palestine” draws on Jewish music traditions to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the war.

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Ideas

Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys.

The founding president of the Yiddish Book Center is retiring, confident that Yiddish literature has a future.

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture.

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Obituaries

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

Culture

25 years after opening, Yiddish Book Center overhauls its core exhibit for a wider audience

Ideas

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

New York

7 standout items from a new exhibit celebrating Yiddish New York

New York

March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

New York

On stage and in the classroom, Mikhl Yashinsky is stoking the flame of the Yiddish revival

New York

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ returns in Yiddish — and feels more relevant than ever

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