Tag: Learning Yiddish

Durant trois semaines, l’Institut d’Europe de l’Est accueille des étudiants du monde entier et leur propose des cours de yiddish et des activités culturelles en présentiel. Sous la direction de Yitskhok Niborski, l’équipe pédagogique vous propose un...

Intermediate-to-advanced level speakers are welcome to join us in a linguistic and literary trip back in time to a world of Eastern European Jews of the  19th century. Reb Nakhman's Tales, works by Dr. Solomon Ettinger...

Join us on Sunday, September 19, between 1 and 3 PM ET for a virtual kumzits to introduce you to our Yiddish language and klezmer workshop instructors, and our Yiddish KinderKlub instructor. They will acquaint you with the...

The synagogue packed with people praying under their white tallises looks like "a forest of snow-covered trees" and everyone prays the same prayer, but under each tallis there is a different person with different...

Yiddish Word of the Day: Rosh Hashanah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf93TyLywzs

Thanks for visiting the Forward’s Yiddish Crosswords game! This will not work on your mobile phone, so please load it on a larger screen device like an iPad, or a laptop/desktop computer. Your progress...

Nu, vilst redn a bisele yidish? A new event for Yiddish enthusiasts the world over, the YIVO Yiddish club is an informal monthly gathering to celebrate mame-loshn. Hosted by Shane Baker, sessions will take place in English,...

In the era of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, movie moguls tended to spice their jargon with expressions from the colorful vernacular of their pushcart-peddling forebears. The euphony of Yiddish is a tradition...

The League for Yiddish is pleased to announce that we are now selling the newly published Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary. Editors-in chief – Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner; associate editors – Barry Goldstein and Yankl...

If a language is the key to knowledge and to communicate and understand a culture, idioms are the key to their heart. In these two books by Chaim Werdyger “YIDDISH IN 10 LESSONS” and “500...