For each text, I design activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.

Ruth Wisse, Yiddish literature professor emerita at Harvard University and a distinguished senior fellow at the Tikvah Fund, cautioned against the rise of “adversarial ideas,” stating that American ...

TAU Theatre students play a young woman and her grandmother, who wants to marry her off, in TAU's exceptional production of ...

Over the past decade Poland has been experiencing what many are calling a Jewish Renaissance - fuelled by a new unexpected generation of young Poles intent on discovering their Jewish roots. Nowhere ...

Meng Yang, an assistant professor at Peking University in Beijing who is speaking in the Bay Area this week, has carved out a unique space in China’s academic landscape. She teaches the country’s ...

Theatre Or* will present the Colorado premiere of THE LAST YIDDISH SPEAKER, winner of the 2024 Jewish Plays Project. Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer and directed by Amy Feinberg, the production runs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Skybell, a native Texan based in New York, might be the Tevya for our times. See why when Austin Opera produces the classic ...

Of late, Steven Skybell’s black-and-silver beard has served him well. The New York-based actor — who stars as Tevye in Austin Opera’s four-performance staging of “Fiddler on the Roof,” running Feb.

The Jewish Studies Program, in conjunction with Jacobs School of Music, hosted poet and songwriter Psoy Korolenko in Ford-Crawford Hall on Wednesday night to perform “Yiddish Slavic and Sound.” Over ...

Call me a softie, but I love a traditional Christmas Eve. If you don’t find me eating Chinese food and watching a movie, I might be catching Gotham Comedy Club’s “A Very Jewish Christmas!” show or ...

For Negin Nader Bazrafkan, Yiddish lessons have been an unexpected perk of moving into her Upper West Side apartment. Her roommate - and unofficial Yiddish teacher - is 96-year-old Rebecca Schull, a ...