Yiddish language
Yiddish 'Fiddler On The Roof' Is A 'Dream Come True' For Lead Actor
A new, Yiddish language production of the musical is currently running off-Broadway. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, who directs the show, explain why the play still resonates.
Getting the Shmootz on Yiddish
In his new book Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, Michael Wex explores the history and culture of Yiddish: its complaints, curses and codes.
From Michael Chabon, Noir and Niftorim in the North
Pulitzer Prize winner's 2007 novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union imagines that the fledgling Israel collapsed in 1948 — and part of Alaska was set aside as a temporary refuge for Jews. The inspiration: A real proposal to do just that.
Yiddish Has Spread Across the Whole of the U. S.
Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers how Yiddish words have entered the everyday speech of even non-Jews.