The Forward

A Yiddish word I never expected to see on a license plate

When I saw the license plate, I nearly crashed the car. The gray Prius, parked three blocks from my house in Oakland, California, had a Yiddish word on its license plate. But not just any Yiddish word ...
The Forward

Defining Legitimacy

Edward J. Klein of Jamaica Estates, N.Y., writes: “I have heard two words claiming to be Yiddish which I understand are Polish. One is nigde, meaning never, as in ‘The Messiah will come on Shabbes ...
The Jewish Exponent

At YIVO, an Unfinished Yiddish Dictionary Gets the Last Word — as Opera

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...
Reuters

Yiddish revival creates rift with Hebrew speakers

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...