If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, the traditional language of Ashkenazi Jewry, it would not be New York or Jerusalem, in many minds, but Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania ...

As many visitors to the Forverts (the Yiddish section of the Forward) know, you can get an immediate English translation to almost all words you find in the Yiddish-language articles. Just click on ...

At a Berlin bar on a recent Wednesday evening, several patrons kept glancing curiously at the group of eight people around a neighboring table. The members of the group were chatting in a language ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are kvelling, ...