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 ...

(JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath ...

For about six months in 2018, I spent every Thursday night alone in Siberia. It wasn’t nearly as cold or desolate as its namesake, especially after the longtime New Orleans dive bar underwent a ...

-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 ...

It’s 1945, three years before the establishment of the state of Israel and at the very end of the Holocaust. Vilna Ghetto fighter Rozka Korczak-Marla comes to Tel Aviv, addressing the assembled in ...

Spoken by over 11 million Jews in Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, Yiddish is still today spoken by an estimated 600,000 people. It is also widely used in in traditional Jewish religious ...

WEIMAR, Germany (AFP) — A push to revitalize Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime’s Holocaust sought to eradicate the Jewish ...

Yirmiyahu Danzig (aka @that_semite on Instagram and @Unpacked on YouTube), an Israeli Jewish rights and anti-racism activist of Caribbean and Ashkenazi descent, usually explores questions of identity ...