I recently interviewed Zalmen in New York about his life, upbringing and career that he has been so passionate about his whole life.
The coronation of King Charles and his Queen Consort Camilla is providing plenty of fodder for media outlets in Britain and around the world.
She started writing poetry at the camp as a way of boosting her fellow inmates’ morale, and managed to smuggle some of her poems out in her mouth.
Now is as welcome a time as any to celebrate Jewish life, learn a Yiddish song and discover the lessons of history along the way.
This month a collection of new Yiddish songs will be performed for the first time in America at a Manhattan museum.
At the beginning, it was relatively easy. He could handle the names of his two kids, their spouses and seven grandchildren. But it all became a bit more unwieldy.
The book shows that the religion v. secularism debate transcends different eras
This week YIVO and the NLI will announce the completion of the digitization of writer Chaim Grade's entire archive.
The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop over 1,000 years ago.