When asked to name Jewish languages, most people would say Hebrew and Yiddish. Some might also mention Ladino or Aramaic. It’s unlikely that they would know about Juhuri, Bukhori and Judeo-Median — ...

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture.

(JTA) — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in languages familiar and obscure. The daily counting ...

Whenever a speaker of a Jewish language dies, we lose an opportunity to learn and teach more about the nuances of this rich language and culture. Flory Jagoda devoted much of her life to preserving ...

(JTA) In April, the language-learning app Duolingo added its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish. A couple of decades ago, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream non-Jewish language ...

A new exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw highlights the diversity of Jewish languages, from Hebrew and Yiddish to Ladino and Judeo-Arabic. A new exhibition ...

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...

University of Arkansas associate professor of philosophy Jacob Adler learned Hebrew at temple, Yiddish at his great-aunt Celia's house in Providence, R.I., and Aramaic after entering rabbinical school ...

When the haggadah asks: “How is this night different from all other nights?” this year’s unprecedented answers are painfully obvious. With everyone on lockdown, the coronavirus defies the Passover ...

Skirball Cultural Center’s Magnin Auditorium will host this year’s “Voice of Heritage: Celebrating Indigenous and Jewish Languages and Cultures” in a one-day event from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Nov.

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...