Yiddish Column – The American Israelite Newspaper

Some Yiddish roads lead to Rome…

My eldest son is a budding and enthusiastic Latinist, a noble and edifying interest if […]

On the first of March, for any “shtérnzeyers” (stargazers) out there, there was a remarkable […]

Inaccuracies and stereotypes surround the connections of Yiddish-speaking Jews to land. Study-bound scholars, or rootless […]

As we ring in the new year at a time of weighty things, beset as […]

I’m not one given to thinking much about God, nor am I one of those […]

At the risk of trying your patience with two columns in a row of poetry, […]

The angle of the sunlight changes. The trees shed their leaves in profusion. The call […]

September has arrived and with it the start of new semesters everywhere. School and scholarship […]

Thank you for your forbearance during last month’s hiatus. I’m back now and we’re off […]

Here in Cincinnati, we love our books. As a librarian, this makes Cincinnati a wonderful […]