The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish. It's the 40th language to be added to the app — and one that builds on efforts to include languages that are ...

Yiddish has been spoken for more than a thousand years, but anyone thinking it’s a dead language in today’s world need only look to the Workmen’s Circle to see that’s not true at all. In fact, the ...

-Collaboration bucks trend of foreign language enrollments on college campuses, noting Workmen’s Circle’s tripling of enrollment in its online courses- (New York, NY and Melrose Park, PA)— Gratz ...

(JTA) Yale will launch beginner Yiddish classes in the fall that will allow students to fulfill their language requirements, according to the Yale Daily News. Yiddish studies now offered at the Ivy ...

Cornell’s first-ever cohort of Yiddish language learners have entered another semester of mastering alphabets and reading poetry written in the medieval Jewish tongue. The Jewish Studies Program ...

A woman reads in Yiddish during the Yiddish conversation club at the Weisman Community Center in Delray Beach, Fla. (Carline Jean/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) CORAL SPRINGS, Fla ...

If Yiddish has a future on college campuses, it may literally go unspoken. In Yiddish studies programs across the country, a new generation of scholars are learning Yiddish as a language of ...

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Cornell’s first-ever cohort of Yiddish language learners have entered another semester of mastering alphabets and reading poetry written in the medieval Jewish tongue. The Jewish Studies Program ...