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jta.org /1 week ago

YIVO studied a living Yiddish culture. What happened when that world was nearly destroyed?

Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future. -- The post YIVO studied a living Yiddi...

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forward.com /1 month 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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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /5 days ago

YIVO Fellowships 2027-2028

YIVO’s annual fellowships in Eastern European and American Jewish History are open for application.

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jewishjournal.com /1 month ago

Yiddish Historians: Writing in Their Own Language for Their Own People

Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was on...

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forward.com /4 weeks ago

Jewish languages meet in Birobidzhan

אויף אַן אינטערנאַציאָנאַלן ייִדישן קולטור־פֿעסטיוואַל לעצטנס אין ביראָבידזשאַן האָט מיך, ווי אַ ייִדישיסט, באַזונדערס פֿאַרחידושט די אינערלעכע ייִדישע פֿיל־שפּראַכיקייט. דער „אינט...

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jta.org /1 month ago

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

Sergii Gurbych, who developed a tool to read handwritten Yiddish and Hebrew texts, said he wanted to “know more about the world where my grandfather lived.” -- The post How a new t...

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forward.com /1 month 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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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /3 days ago

Alexander Beider: Emigration of Jews from Medieval Iberia

You can now read this new article by Alexander Beider, “Emigration of Jews from Medieval Iberia. An Onomastic Investigation,” Journal of Jewish Languages (2026): 1–40.

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forward.com /1 week ago

‘Sefer Elijah’ — probably the oldest proto-Ashkenazi text

ס׳איז מעגלעך, אַז מיר האָט זיך אײַנגעגעבן צו אַנטדעקן דעם עלטסטן פּראָטאָ־אַשכּנזישן טעקסט, אָנגעשריבן אינעם פֿריִיִקן 9טן יאָרהונדערט. דאָס איז דער אוראַלטער אַפּאָקאַליפּטישער מד...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month 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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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 week ago

Associate Professor/Professor – Abraham and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies, University of Toronto

According to their call, “[t]he Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Yiddish Studies. The appoi...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month ago

Jewish Art Journal online

The issue Jewish Art Journal are now online and go back into the 1970s.

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forward.com /1 month ago

How Warsaw became the center of Yiddish culture

אױפֿן שװעל פֿונעם צװאַנציקסטן יאָרהונדערט האָט װאַרשע געהאַט די גרעסטע צאָל ייִדישע תּושבֿים אין אײראָפּע, בערך אַ פֿערטל מיליאָן נפֿשות. אָבער די דאָזיקע באַפֿעלקערונג איז באַשטאַ...

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baptistnews.com /1 month 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 /1 month ago

How a new tool in Lithuania helps people read letters from their Jewish ancestors

(JTA) — VILNIUS, Lithuania — At a family reunion in California in 2013, Felicita Trueblood discovered a portal to the past: a binder full of letters from her great-grandfather, a r...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /1 month 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

Jewish History 40.1–2 (2026)

You can now read the new volume of Jewish History 40.1–2 (2026) with much medieval content.

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myjewishlearning.com /2 days ago

Must-Read Jewish Memoirs

Storytelling has always been at the heart of the Jewish experience. For generations, sharing personal histories and family legacies has ... The post Must-Read Jewish Memoirs appear...

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forward.com /1 week ago

Memories of Bubbe Khave-Leye at the marketplace in Buenos Aires

אין אונדזערע צײַטן זענען ווייניק יונגע מענטשן זוכה אויסצוּוואַקסן אין אַ שטוב וווּ עס וווינען דרײַ דורות. איך בין געבוירן געוואָרן אין אַ שטוב, וווּ עס האָבן געוווינט צוזאַמען מײַנ...

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forward.com /4 weeks ago

New voices in Yiddish: A prose and poetry contest

לכּבֿוד דעם 85סטן יאָר זינט מע האָט פֿאַרלייגט דעם ייִדישן זשורנאַל „אױפֿן שװעל“, וועט די אָרגאַניזאַציע וואָס שטיצט דעם זשורנאַל, די „ייִדיש־ליגע“, דורכפֿירן אַ קאָנקורס פֿון נײַע...

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mjsnow.hypotheses.org /5 days ago

Archive Dive: Nahmanides

You can now read an Archive Dive about Nahmanides within the Jewish Quarterly Review.

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jpost.com /1 month ago

Yom Kippur through the centuries: The prayer books that preserve centuries of Jewish history

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, NLI’s curator Dr. Chaim Neria explains how the NLI came to house thousands of prayer books, noting that “it fits into the overall mission o...

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forward.com /2 days ago

Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers

Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the transl...

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kveller.com /2 weeks ago

This Multimedia Artist Is Inspired by the Stories of Jewish Immigrant Women

This article is part of Kveller’s Jewish Artists Spotlight, featuring Jewish artists who work in a variety of media in New York, Israel and elsewhere. The project combines a series...

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