In Cleveland, where I live, students in an eighth-grade Hebrew-school class recently pretended to be shtetl dwellers and spoke Yiddish for a day. This month the International Association of Yiddish ...

What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than to sit back and listen to “My Yiddishe Mame,” which long ago escaped the confines of the Jewish ghetto to become one of the world’s most popular songs ...

It was in November 2016 that my grandmother started teaching me Yiddish. When she shared those wise words with me, an anxious mess of a teenage boy from San Antonio, I didn’t realize it, but my ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. The nagging sterotype -- 1. "My Yiddishe mama" : the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- 2. Molly Goldberg : "the prototype of the Jewish ...

Often when I hear carolers singing, my inner ear segues into “My Yiddishe Mamma.” A schmaltz pop song of the 1920s, it was part of a Christmas Eve service on a World War II battlefield. Unlikely as ...

Women always have been the private voice of Yiddish, which is, after all, called the mameloshn (mother tongue). When we think of women and Yiddish, we hear Jewish mothers crooning lullabies, ...

Bernie Madoff's empire came crumbling down, a little dust landed on the collective head of Yiddishe Cup. But like everything else over these last 20 years, band leader Bert Stratton took it all in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Lyric Fest presents three performances of Yiddishe Nightingale, a special ...