As a professional translator of Yiddish literature, I was surprised by the characterization of the Australian Jewish ...

Born to a Christian mother, Rabbi Cody Bahir had a remarkable journey to the rabbinate that included receiving a post-doc in ...

What emerges in “Christmas in the Yiddish Tradition” is not a sentimental argument for reviving a lost holiday, nor a polemic ...

Photo: Night Stories features Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Shane Baker. Photo courtesy of Jordan P. McAfee / Provided by press rep ...

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons, including a five-star run at the Sydney Opera House, Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish ...

Yentl, a new stage adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short story, will make its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre next spring.

A seasoned Jewish writer and Yiddish translator analyzes why "sparks flew" during the maestro's 80th birthday celebration at ...

With the present dangers confronting the Jewish people, we are desperately in need of more stories about Jewish heroism. For ...

This article initially appeared in Yiddish and can be read here. America held many surprises for Jewish immigrants arriving ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...

Diaspora is the unifying experience of the Jewish people. Cobbling life together during fits and starts of settlement, exile, and persecution, Jews have always had to build communities out of whatever ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great Yiddish ...