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In this talk Michael Casper discusses the emergence of Lithuanian Folkism, and its vision for Yiddish, in late 1910s and early 1920s.

The epithet 'gele prese' (yellow press) was often leveled at the socialist Yiddish Forverts by critics of its editor, Abraham Cahan, who accused him of imitating the methods of American newspapermen Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to the detriment of the Yiddish reading audience.

A live recording of a lecture on the Yiddish press delivered at YIVO’s 42nd Annual Conference in 1968.

Come celebrate the first English-Yiddish dictionary in nearly fifty years. Now you can say almost anything you want in Yiddish!

Many Yiddish writers traveled to Palestine in the first half of the 20th century and published their impression in newspaper articles or books. The encounters of Yiddish writers with the Holy Land and the Zionist Yishuv opens the door to fascinating contemplations on the nature of modern Jewish identity.

A battle for the soul of Yiddish pits two scholars against one another.

In the USC Shoah Foundation’s interviews with Jewish survivors, dozens of them recite poems and sing songs in Yiddish. Jeffrey Shandler explores the meaning of these performances amid memories of the Holocaust.

Learn the Yiddish alphabet: letters, romanization, and pronunciation.

Alyssa Quint explores the fates of the two modern Yiddish theater museums that opened in 1926—the Yiddish Theater Museum in New York and the Esther Rokhl Kaminska Theater Museum in Warsaw.

Today, there are approximately half a million Yiddish speakers in the United States. But what role does it play in speakers’ lives?