The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

Yiddish has been spoken for more than a thousand years, but anyone thinking it’s a dead language in today’s world need only look to the Workmen’s Circle to see that’s not true at all. In fact, the ...

-Collaboration bucks trend of foreign language enrollments on college campuses, noting Workmen’s Circle’s tripling of enrollment in its online courses- (New York, NY and Melrose Park, PA)— Gratz ...

The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA)’s Winter Intensive Yiddish Language & Culture Program has prepared a new lineup of language courses, reading circles and ...

Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy League ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This week, Folksbiene! LIVE features the launch of 15-minute Yiddish lessons led ...

“U-Maryland has had the biggest commitment to Yiddish as a language anywhere in a hundred-mile radius,” says Harvey Spiro, president of Yiddish of Greater Washington, which organized a letter-writing ...

The Yiddish ballad “A brivele der mamen” dates to more than a century ago, written during a time of uncertainty for many Jewish families who became separated; while some braved the journey to Ellis ...

At the 15th annual International Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture, students from around the world delight in a common tongue. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — When Gołda Tencer, the director of the ...