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Chaim Grade

Yiddish literary giant Chaim Grade was born 110 years ago this April. His writing is a testament to the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century

Eliezer Steinbarg

Eliezer Steinbarg, born on this day in 1880, is remembred as a great Yiddish writer. His works were filled with references to Jewish teachings and sayings.

Kadia Molodowsky - portraying women's voices in Yiddish literature

Kadia Molodowsky, born in May of 1894, was a popular Yiddish writer in Poland and later in the US. She brought Jewish women's struggles - and voices - to the forefront of her literary work.

Major politicians speak Yiddish

Listen to Zhabotinsky's, Ben Gurion's and Meir's public speeches in Yiddish

Yiddish is alive, and it will live!

Some Jews exclaim and vow, whereas other ones take practical, decisive steps for keeping Yiddish up for future generations

Hadashot: Abject Jargon or The Language of the Jewish Aristocracy?

Editor's note: The following interview by Michael Gold with Dr. Mordekhai Yushkovsky, the Yiddish Instruction Inspector for the Ministry of Education of Israel of Hadashot, the newspaper of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine. In honor of a new UJE-sponsored Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary that will be presented at this year's Jerusalem International Book Festival, which should bring about renewed interest in Yiddish, we are publishing a translation of the October 2014 interview.

Yiddish stores Jewishness

Anatoly Kerzhner, specially for the "Jewish Observer" No. 10/262, October 2014

The story of Yiddish (by Harvey Gotliffe)

Once upon a time, nearly a thousand years ago, there were people with no country of their own. From the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, they were expelled from whatever European land they had settled. At times, they were unable to take all of their physical possessions with them, however they always took what was most important — their religious beliefs and their language. The people were the Jews, their religion was Judaism, and their language was Yiddish.