As these young initiatives continue, Forman said he hopes what started with one Yiddish course will ultimately develop into a full-fledged language program with advanced-level and literature classes.

In 2021, Yale began offering an L1 Yiddish class for language credit, and since then the program has grown exponentially. Now, Yale offers classes up to the third language level, or L3 — Intermediate ...

Through contemporary cultural programs, joyful holiday celebrations, strategic social justice campaigns, vibrant Yiddish language classes, interactive educational experiences and more, we connect ...

Yiddish was once the language of three-quarters of world Jewry, but the wealth of Yiddish literature and cultural artifacts is incomprehensible to a younger generation of Jews who never learned ...

Several of the 15 students who joined a recent online "Yiddish Lite" introductory class laughed at the expressions shared by teacher Alan Davis.

Yiddish World VIDEO: Indian student takes his first in-person Yiddish class — and loves it Duke University doctoral student Syed Habeeb Tehseen is now a fan of classic Yiddish literature.

“Everyone here is celebrating a culture and drawing on community. It’s about joy and resilience. It’s not just a culture being preserved; we’re living our Yiddish,” Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers ...

“I never asked even one question,” he said. But at 27, prompted by a school director who asked him to teach a Yiddish class, he taught himself the language and engrossed himself in his culture.

Most Yiddish schools disappeared by the end of the 1980s, largely the result of declining interest in Yiddish, the upward mobility of Jews out of the working class, the rise of suburban Hebrew schools ...

Celebration trumps mourning at the return of Yidstock, the 10-year-old festival of new Yiddish music.