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Yiddish

New Lehrhaus executive director Robby Adler Peckerar teaches a Yiddishkayt tour group in Białystok, Poland. (Courtesy)
Posted inIdeas

New Lehrhaus merges with L.A.’s Yiddishkayt, expands its course catalog

by Julie Zigoris January 5, 2026January 6, 2026

Updated on Jan. 6 One of the most popular courses at New Lehrhaus, the Berkeley-based Jewish learning institute, uses a novel approach to understanding the Talmud: “Seinfeld.” “Whatever excites somebody’s […]

Elizabeth Carter
Posted inTheater

‘Indecent’ comes to Walnut Creek to tell groundbreaking queer Yiddish story

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 27, 2025August 27, 2025
Aaron Lansky speaks at the Yiddish Book Center gala, May 4, 2025. (Susan Magnano/Magnanimous Pictures)
Posted inBooks

He built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s walking away. 

by Andrew Silow-Carroll June 11, 2025June 11, 2025
Two girls wear banners with the slogan "Abolish child slavery" in English and Yiddish, probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City. (Photo/JTA-Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Posted inFirst Person

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

Noa Baron by Noa Baron July 20, 2023
A view inside the Pink Peacock in 2020. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Pink Peacock)
Posted inWorld

The Pink Peacock, Glasgow’s queer, Yiddish, pay-what-you-can cafe, shuts down after alleging antisemitism from ‘leftists’

by Jacob Judah June 20, 2023June 20, 2023
cover art for "On The Landing," “The Glatstein Chronicles” and “In the Land of the Postscript”
Posted inCulture

SFPL branch offers program highlighting works by Yiddish authors, Elana Dykewomon

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 20, 2023April 20, 2023
Abraham Sutzkever
Posted inFilm

‘Who Will Remain?’ Filmmaker’s ode to legendary Yiddish poet to screen in Palo Alto

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 11, 2023April 12, 2023
Malka Wallick (left) and Rivka Borek in a pre-production photo for "Indecent" at the San Francisco Playhouse. (Photo/Jessica Palopoli)
Posted inTheater

Cancellation of student play in Florida is ‘Indecent’

Bruce Bierman by Bruce Bierman January 18, 2023January 18, 2023
Malka Wallick (left) and Rivka Borek in a pre-production photo for "Indecent" at the San Francisco Playhouse. (Photo/Jessica Palopoli)
Posted inCulture

‘Indecent’ at S.F. Playhouse pulls back curtain on scandalous 1907 Yiddish play

by Patricia Corrigan September 14, 2022September 16, 2022
Audience members jump up to dance during a concert at Yidstock. (Photo/Forward-Ben Barnhart)
Posted inUncategorized

At a Yiddish music festival in bucolic Massachusetts, tradition is everything — and nothing

by Irene Katz Connelly and Forward July 14, 2022July 14, 2022

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