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forward.com /6 days ago

How the Yiddish project took root in the U.S. after the Holocaust

How did the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research find a new home in the United States after the Holocaust? Kalman Weiser (York University, Toronto) narrates this dramatic story in a...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Looking for the right Yiddish word? This 1950 reference book finds it for you

As more people explore Yiddish, a thick 1950 book I discovered on a beloved friend’s shelf can help anyone find the exact right word for any situation. Der Oytser fun der Yidisher...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month ago

Exhibition: Jiddisch/ייִדיש – Von den Anfängen bis zum Buchdruck.

21 July – 13 September 2026, Erfurt Small Synagogue Yiddish is primarily a language spoken and written by Jews in German-speaking regions. In its earliest stages, the language deve...

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forward.com /2 weeks ago

How YIVO and Max Weinreich Americanized the Yiddish project

װי אַזױ האָט ייִװאָ געפֿונען אַ נײַע הײם אין אַמעריקע נאָכן חורבן? קלמן װײַזער (יאָרק־אוניװערסיטעט אין טאָראָנטאָ) דערצײלט די דאָזיקע דראַמאַטישע געשיכטע אינעם נײַעם בוך „ייִדיש־װ...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /4 weeks ago

Database “Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine”

The beta version of the “Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine” bibliographic database has been launched. This project was created to systematize academic research on Jewish histor...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month ago

New book — Jews in the Old Rus’: A Documentary History, by Alexander Kulik

Harvard University Press, June 2026. For the first time, this collection makes available a selection of documents on the history of Jews in old Rus’ that provide unique insight int...

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forward.com /1 week ago

In the Southwest, public libraries are becoming Yiddish hubs

Think of Yiddish today and you might picture Hasidic Brooklyn, Haredi neighborhoods in Israel or scholars working to preserve a language too often falsely written off as “dead” or...

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independent.co.uk /3 weeks ago

In Weimar, a festival preserves Yiddish culture while reinventing it

Since its start, the festival has grown from a weekend workshop with a handful of participants to the largest festival of its kind in Europe, lasting more than a month, with daily...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /5 days ago

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Jewish Visual Culture and Art

You can now read this new book: Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Jewish Visual Culture and Art, Ilil Arbel and Alec Mishory (Frank & Timme Verlag: Berlin, 2026). A review...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Shmuel Plavnik: A classic example of Jewish-Belarusian identity

מיט צוויי חדשים צוריק האָב איך געשריבן אינעם פֿאָרווערטס, אַז איך האָב צופֿעליק אַנטדעקט מאַגישע כּתבֿ־ידן אויף ווײַסרוסיש, אָנגעשריבן מיט ייִדישע אותיות. דאָס געפֿינס איז ממש אויף...

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forward.com /1 month ago

Diary of a Jewish ghetto refugee, written in a pigsty

אין דער װעלט פֿון ייִדיש איז בערל כּהנס נאָמען גוט באַקאַנט צוליב זײַנע היסטאָרישע און ביבליאָגראַפֿישע שטודיעס, צװישן זײ — דער צוגאָב־באַנד צו דעם „לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדיש...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /2 weeks ago

University of Virginia Visiting Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence

According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia’s scholar-in-residence fellowship program is a short-term residency open to distinguished natio...

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baptistnews.com /6 days ago

Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from Russia to Mexico to the U...

I grew up in Mexico City, and when people find out that one of my native languages is Yiddish, they think I am pulling their leg. Isn’t that a Jewish language? Mexico? Impossible....

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forward.com /2 weeks ago

Italy is having a Yiddish moment. An unprecedented I.J. Singer translation is part of the boom.

(JTA) — In September 1932, Israel Joshua Singer boarded a ship bound for New York, where he had been invited to report on the United States for Yiddish-speaking Jews like himself....

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jta.org /2 weeks ago

Italy is having a Yiddish moment. An unprecedented I.J. Singer translation is part of the boom.

The novelist's dispatches from his 1932 journey through America are newly available in Italian. -- The post Italy is having a Yiddish moment. An unprecedented I.J. Singer translati...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /2 weeks ago

New book — “Anti-Jewish Greek Texts in Late Medieval Crete: The Case of Manouel Savios and Angelos Gregorios,” by Elefth...

Brepols, 2026

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month ago

New book (Open Access)– Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials

Edited by Andreas Lehnertz, Maria Stürzebecher, Simha Goldin, and Joseph Isaac Lifshitz. De Gruyter Brill, 2026.

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forward.com /3 weeks ago

Amid bombs, drone-strikes and blackouts, these non-Jewish Ukrainian students are studying Yiddish

Daryna Kahaniuk, a 19-year-old student of English philology at the University of Lviv, was in the middle of an online Yiddish class when the air raid started. Outside, the sirens w...

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forward.com /1 month ago

What sort of Yiddish do Yiddishists speak today?

Ask the question: “What sort of Yiddish do Yiddishists speak?” and a jokester might respond: “Well, these days they speak English.” But let’s consider the Yiddishists who really do...

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forward.com /2 weeks ago

A tourist’s guide to the vanished Jewish quarter of Warsaw

פֿאַרן חורבן האָבן אין וואַרשע געוווינט אַן ערך 370 טויזנט ייִדן — די גרעסטע ייִדישע שטאָט אין אייראָפּע און די צווייט גרעסטע בכלל נאָך ניו-יאָרק. נאָך דער מלחמה איז די שטאָט און א...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /2 weeks ago

Mind-IL 2026 conference: “Ethics and Jewish Philosophy: from the Middle Ages to Today,” 24 October 2026

This conference will take place at Bar-Ilan University.

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /3 weeks ago

European Hebrew Journal Online Conference, 6вЂ“8 November 2026

EUROPEAN HEBREW JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY ONLINE CONFERENCE NEW DISCOVERIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN BIBLICAL, HEBREW, AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES 6вЂ“8 November 2026 | Online via Z...

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forward.com /1 month ago

I was a reluctant Yiddishist. Here’s what converted me.

I couldn’t understand my peers’ embrace of Yiddish culture. Now I’m fascinated –– by the world evoked in Yiddish music and literature, and the leaders of its revival. My conversion...

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forward.com /1 week ago

Emil Kalin wins Mendele Prize for Yiddish Literature 2026

דער תּּל-אָבֿיבֿער שטאָטראַט האָט די וואָך אַנאָנסירט, אַז דער 43־אָריקער ייִדישער שרײַבער עמיל קאַלין האָט זוכה געווען צו באַקומען דעם מענדעלע-פּּריז פֿאַר ייִדישער ליטעראַטור. דע...

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