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Yiddish

Ver voynt in an ananas untern yam? (Photo/Getty; Design/JTA-Jackie Hajdenberg)
Posted inTV & Film

The ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ theme song is now in Yiddish

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 14, 2022
Billy Crystal performing a "Yiddish scat" routine during the 75th annual Tony Awards, June 12, 2022. (Screenshot)
Posted inTheater

Billy Crystal’s ‘Yiddish scat’ and other Jewish moments at the Tonys

by Andrew Lapin and JTA June 13, 2022
Howard Paul and his wife, Skippy, who have been making and enjoying wine together for decades.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

Yiddish it’s not, but Machaia wine is still a joy

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 15, 2022March 15, 2022
(Meduyeket/James Conway/JTA Collage by Grace Yagel)
Posted inGames

Does Wordle have you ‘farblundget’? Try these Hebrew and Yiddish versions.

by Michelle Krasovitski and JTA January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
A program cover from a 1920s Yiddish Press Ball in Warsaw is shown before and after conservation treatment. It and thousands of other programs and posters can be seen as part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project. (Photo/Courtesy YIVO)
Posted inHistory

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Screenshot from the official "Spider-Man: No Way Home" app
Posted inTV & Film

What Yiddish — and the Forward — are doing in the new Spider-Man movie

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
A scene from the Yiddish version of "Waiting for Godot" staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Magnus Swärd-Judisk kultur i Sverige)
Posted inCulture

Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

by Katarzyna Andersz and JTA November 22, 2021November 22, 2021
Jon Hamm and Larry David discuss Yiddish words during the first episode of Season 11 of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Screenshot from HBO)
Posted inTV

Larry David gives Jon Hamm a Yiddish lesson in very Jewish start to new season of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA October 25, 2021
Duolingo's "flag" for the Yiddish course showcases an aleph with a "komets" diacritic, a foundational Yiddish letter. (Image/Courtesy Duolingo)
Posted inUncategorized

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA April 5, 2021
"Jew street," as it is known locally, was once a hub for Judeo-Malayalam, the now endangered language spoken by the Jews of India's Cochin region. (Photo/JTA-Christabel Lobo)
Posted inHistory

The fight to save endangered Jewish languages, from Ladino to Judeo-Malayalam

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 22, 2021March 29, 2021

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