Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik has gone viral after sharing the real meaning behind well-known Yiddish words. Bialik, 47, who comes from a family of Jewish immigrants has been speaking Yiddish since she ...

The installation in Munich is an ill-conceived attempt to honor the Jewish humor of millions of Yiddish speakers murdered by ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...

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We all know who matters in life. Family. Friends. These are the people we write about, worry about, complain about. And we have so many words for them! Bestie. Sis. Bro. Partner-in-crime. We’ve got a ...

The Yiddish word "vants" means bedbug. What's False However, "Vance" and "vants" are not necessarily pronounced the same. After former U.S. President Donald Trump announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his ...

Actual cultural appropriation is offensive. But what’s the line between true appropriation, which by most definitions ...

On my mother’s side, they all spoke fluent Yiddish. Most of these conversations took place while eating moisture-free yellow pound cake and washing it down with warmed-up day-old Maxwell House Coffee.