Yiddish

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.

AUGUST 21, 2026|BySIMONE SOMEKH/JTA

I.J. Singer's dispatches for the Yiddish Forward are collected in “Viaggi in America” (“Travels in America”), which was recently published in a new Italian translation.

Yiddish music from Yad Vashem’s archives. Yiddish was the voice of Jewish life across Central and Eastern Europe for nearly a millennium until approximately five million Yiddish speakers were murdered during World War II.

'The greatest light is concealed in the darkest places': reviving Yiddish songs

The Holocaust silenced millions of Yiddish voices; musicians are now bringing the songs of a lost civilization back to life

AUGUST 17, 2026|BySHIFRA JACOBS

Despite pushbacks and boycotts, Israeli entertainers, like comedian, Yohay Sponder continue performing.

Despite boycotts and cancellation, Israeli entertainers stay proud of identity - from the editor

Amid boycotts and hostility abroad, Israeli artists unapologetically embrace their identities and continue performing on stage

AUGUST 17, 2026|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH

Rabbi Yigal Cohen light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede, at the scene of the fatal disaster, at Mt Meron, last week. May 06, 2021.

Israel urges rabbis to help stop Iranian spy recruitment after dozens of indictments - report

Iranian agents use a simple recruitment method, relying on "fishing expeditions and luck," gradually escalating their demands in exchange for "easy" money.

JULY 18, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem

Who was Anatoly Kaplan and why has he been honored with this retrospective in a city he would never get to visit?

JUNE 17, 2023ByMORDECHAI BECK

Meet Zalmen Mlotek, US Yiddish Theater artistic director

I recently interviewed Zalmen in New York about his life, upbringing and career that he has been so passionate about his whole life.

MAY 20, 2023ByJOSEPH SCUTTS

Grapevine May 14, 2023: A crisis of another kind

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 14, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

ANGELA MERKEL, then German chancellor, arrives with her spokesman Steffen Seibert for a news conference after a meeting with governors of former East German states at the Chancellery in Berlin, in 2020.

Grapevine May 3, 2023: A different aspect of Liverpool

The coronation of King Charles and his Queen Consort Camilla is providing plenty of fodder for media outlets in Britain and around the world.

MAY 7, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

RUTH BONDY is congratulated by Amos Horev, president of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in 1974, on her winning the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for the book ‘The Emissary: The Life of Enzo Sereni.’

‘The Last Yiddish poet’ Rivka Basman Ben-Haim dies

She started writing poetry at the camp as a way of boosting her fellow inmates’ morale, and managed to smuggle some of her poems out in her mouth.

MARCH 29, 2023ByZELDA KAHAN NEWMAN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

My grandmother was a 'Sherlock Holmes' but couldn't solve antisemitism

Now is as welcome a time as any to celebrate Jewish life, learn a Yiddish song and discover the lessons of history along the way.

MARCH 22, 2023ByRABBI AVRAM MLOTEK/JTA

YIDDISH COLLECTION from Barbara Shaw Gifts.

March comes in with a roar of new Yiddish music

This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.

MARCH 4, 2023ByJON KALISH/JTA

Remembering family names is hard when you have so many - opinion

At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByHERB KEINON