Yiddish

Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David: Preserving the history of German Jewry - interview

Jerusalemite of the Week: A conversation with Leo Baeck Institute director Dr. Irene Aue-Ben-David on preserving German Jewish history.

Irene Aue-Ben-David
A three-year-old haredi child found on his own at a bus terminal at the Kalandiya West Bank crossing, December 15, 2025

Ultra-Orthodox child forgotten on bus and left alone at West Bank checkpoint, police probe parents

Jacob and Rachel by William Dyce (1853)

Leah, and the inner truth we need in an age of illusion - opinion

Saul Rubinek plays a version of himself in "Playing Shylock," about an actor whose dream to play Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character is thwarted by timid producers.

Saul Rubinek’s new one-man show asks, is there ever a right time to play Shylock? 


Worlds of Jewish music and thought

A Polish-born singer brings a taste of the shtetl to Jerusalem.

 OLGA AVIGAIL Mieleszczuk spreads the Yiddish musical word far and wide.

Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

Forman, a trailblazer of feminist Jewish studies, died June 9 at Toronto General Hospital. She was 87.

 Frieda Johles Forman, feminist translator, editor and writer, sits for an oral history interview with the Yiddish Book Center, May 11, 2016, in Toronto.

Pulling Jewish strings: 'Stempenyu' debuts at Tel Aviv's Beit Lessin Theatre

"Stempenyu: A Riveting Tale of Love, Tradition, and Jewish Life in the Pale," delves into the depths of rich theatrical storytelling, exploring love, culture, and tradition in this poignant portrayal

 ‘STEMPENYU’ DEPICTS scenes from a Torah-oriented life.

Grapevine, February 28, 2024: Heroes then and now

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 GUY KLAIMAN with Amnon Ben-David, CEO of Eshet Tours.

Can literature soothe the trauma of war?

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.

 Women protest calling for the government to find a solution to have the hostages released, outside Hakirya Base (Military Defense Headquarters) in Tel Aviv, February 1, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

Grapevine, January 24, 2024: An error of omission

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 JAPANESE AND Israelis join forces in the Japanese ‘Kakizome’ ceremony, in a Japanese gesture of solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza.

The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

"The Zone of Interest,” which won the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, never shows the inside of the camp’s operations.

 A scene from "The Zone of Interest"

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

Ruth Seymour will also be remembered as a trailblazer in public radio’s embrace of digital platforms.

 Ruth Seymour, raised in the Bronx, turned KCRW in Los Angeles into a public radio powerhouse and produced a series of programs on Yiddish short stories.

'Unearthed': Holocaust history on the trail of a Yiddish theater actress - review

The author took on the role of the memorial candle with devotion, and as she grew up became determined to learn everything she could about her lost cousins, especially her cousin Franya.

 HUNGARIAN JEWS on the ‘selection’ ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in occupied Poland, spring 1944. This photo is from the ‘Auschwitz Album,’ the only surviving visual evidence of the mass murder process at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Yiddish book center unveils new core exhibit

How do you tell the story of a language without a country, and of a culture that lost a majority of its purveyors in a little over a decade of madness?

A copy of Say It In Yiddish.