Adding to my recent series of Jewish given name lists (see my Names page for links to all the articles on names) is this list which comes from a US-published

After my earlier lists of Hebrew names were published (see the Names page for a list of all name-related posts on this site), Rachel NewYork (moderator at the

A short story from Leon Kobrin's 1903 collection Geto dramen.

The Yiddish Linotype at the Yiddish Book Center, once belonging to the Forverts newspaper, begs all kinds of questions about its past.

The 32-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn't teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle.

Develop fluency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Yiddish skills with Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz through songs, poetry, and short stories.— The YIVO Institute (@yivoinstitute) August 25, 2022

Young people get organized in Yiddishland

In 1979, when Henry Sapoznik founded the klezmer band Kapelye, he was among a cohort of passionate young musicians, musicologists and cultural workers who sought to reclaim Eastern European Jewish music and link themselves to still-living masters of that tradition. It was hard work. Relatively little had been done to preserve or transmit the culture of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in America.