The Fate of Yaakov Maggid review: Joyous but realistic celebration of a lost Jewish world

First-class translation of Ludovic Bruckstein's Yiddish short story collection proves a timely panacea in these dark times

Why are German anti-Zionists learning Yiddish?

In a misguided attempt to relive the past, they have blinded themselves to Israel’s present

Yiddish was never the language of a radical, progressive past

The idea that there was a bohemian-revolutionary Yiddish culture is fantasy

So you vant to learn Yiddish?

Is our man meshuggeneh to want to get to grips with his forebears’ language? Will they be kvelling at his progress?

Coronation Street actor stars in Manchester women's Yiddish movie

Nigel Pivaro, who played Terry Duckworth in the ITV soap, worked with the Alevai group on a short film accompanying its North Manchester Yiddish dictionary

I struggled learning Hebrew but when I began studying Yiddish, everything just clicked

Es iz fil beser tsu lernen Yiddish vi Hebreish

Forgotten Yiddish literature is a peephole to a vanished world

The arrival of Eastern European Jews in the mid-1880s led to London becoming a hive of Yiddish culture, now all but lost

Tony Awards: Billy Crystal leads Samuel L. Jackson in Yiddish scat singalong

The Jewish actor and comedian performed in character as the once-successful comedian Buddy Young Jr. from his Broadway musical 'Mr. Saturday Night'

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