As my children get ready to go back to school, I find myself going through […]
Category: Yiddish Column
Linguistic Borrowings in the Yiddish Language
There are two primary Jewish textual wells that Yiddish culture draws on with great regularity: […]
The Body in Yiddish
I hurt my knee a while back, and it’s still bothering me. I try not […]
The many Yiddish terms for rabbits, hares, and bunnies . . .oh my!
It’s that time of year again: “Páskhe” (Easter). Or as some wag once called it, […]