In klezmer music, according to one website, the word is used to describe “the sound of a voice catching as it sobs.” It can also mean the particular fold in the black hats some Orthodox men wear that ...

Freud mavens may have to reconsider their idol once again. Early experts on the German Jewish founder of psychoanalysis, such as Ernest Jones and Ronald Clark, saw him as an assimilated Jew with ...

Mr. Stavans, a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a co-editor of the book “How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish.” For a language without a physical address that has ...

COPAKE, New York (Reuters) - Hebrew is the language of the state of Israel and the Bible, but a growing number of Jews around the world are reclaiming Yiddish as the language of their culture, ...