Ladino was once spoken by Jews expelled from Spain. Stanford scholar Nesi Altaras is immersed in the language of that lost ...

Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of ...

Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher, cultural and literary critic, was born on July 15, 1892, in Berlin, into a wealthy, ...

This catalogue maps what the apparatus protects. Twenty-four distortion modes operate across the Lithuanian state apparatus.

Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik wrote of six knocks. We still hear them today, but they are not only knocks of gratitude. They are ...

Only in the Jewish tradition are arguments considered the safest path to peace, harmony, and holiness. Israel today is the ...

The film allows users to have captions that show what is being said, usually by professors or actors, and that translate Yiddish when it is spoken. The film tells the history of modern Yiddish theater ...

How is it that we live in a country where millions of people speak Arabic, yet we, as a society, barely know the language?

Jewish Labor Bund groups are springing up throughout the United States and Europe. Until recently, this was a phrase you ...

Already marginalized, Iran’s religious minority communities are overlooked victims of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Utrecht University commemorates the lives of students and staff who were persecuted by the Nazi regime during the Second World War through Stolpersteine.

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and ...