As one might surmise from its title, “Schmegoogle” is not a serious book. Subtitled “Yiddish Words for Modern Times,” it’s a pun-filled compendium that amusingly mashes up modern English with words ...

Ever wonder what Ashkenazi Jews baked for Purim, aside from homentashen? Learn about it in this special Purim edition of “Yiddish Word of the Day” by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. You’ll also hear ...

In a popular Yiddish film released in 1939, a male character named Getsl Bokser says, “Mayn vayb iz fun di hayntike mames” (“My wife is one of those ‘nowadays’ mothers”). His wife clearly is ‘a modern ...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will kick off its Yiddish Women Playwrights Festival with a virtual reading of Chava Rosenfarb's play The Bird of the Ghetto (Der Foygl fun Geto), the first time ...

Following the success if its virtual YI Love YiddishFest, the Coral Springs-based Yiddishkayt Initiative will host online classes. Yiddish Fun-01 will start on Oct. 18 and will run for six consecutive ...

A lot of people know a few Yiddish words, but few actually speak it outside Orthodox Judaism. During the pandemic, some secular Jews have taken up learning the language to reconnect to their heritage.

Onomatopoeia. It’s a long word with an easy definition – it describes other real or made up words that imitate the sound or action the word refers to. An example of the former would be “boom,” an ...