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Jewish language

What might the great scholar have been intending with a recently discovered list he made of seemingly random words from random European languages?

Aug. 16 2023 12:01AM

“Good Lord, the Christian woman understood!”

May 25 2022 12:01AM

With its new Yiddish course, the language-learning app Duolingo sparked major disagreements over Jewish identity. One of the course developers joins us to discuss what happened.

Meena Viswanath and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic
April 15 2021 12:22AM

Daniel Hagège.

Chen Malul
Sept. 11 2020 12:01AM

An Italian Yiddish was never in the cards, as the case of “Judeo-Mantuan” makes clear, because Jews were more closely integrated into Italian society than they were in Eastern Europe.

March 4 2020 12:01AM

Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.

Chen Malul
Jan. 13 2020 12:01AM

The many hypothesized sources for the saying, “To have butter on one’s head.”

Jan. 9 2019 12:01AM

An eruv is a wall made of doors.

June 15 2018 12:01AM

From the Cairo Genizah.

David Wasserstein
June 8 2018 12:01AM

Blame the Bible.

Alexander Beider
June 5 2018 12:01AM

And their literary history.

Mardean Isaac
June 4 2018 12:01AM

The process results from, in equal measure, Jewish separateness and Jewish assimilation.

May 24 2017 12:01AM

A look at the phenomenon by which Yiddish words become English words under the influence of other, similar-sounding English words.

May 10 2017 12:01AM