In Riverside Park in Manhattan, a simple slab of stone (called der shteyn in Yiddish) commemorates the Jewish fighters of the ...

Before World War II, some 11 million people spoke Yiddish, the historic language of Ashkenazi Jews. The language nearly disappeared because of the Holocaust and assimilation, but experts are ...

The book is a landmark publication, the last novel of the famed Vilna-born Yiddish author whose novel “Rabbis and Wives” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Sons and Daughters was ...