The Yiddish King Lear (Yiddish: דער ייִדישער קעניג ליר, romanized: Der Yidisher Kenig Lir, also known as The Jewish King Lear) was an 1892 play by Jacob...

see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish, historically also Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically...

The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version...

Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...

Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish...

Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא, romanized: Idish-Shprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry...

as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller. She began her career in Yiddish theatre and film, rising to a star, before transitioning into character roles in...

The Yiddish Book Center Yiddish: ייִדישער ביכער־צענטער, romanized: Yidisher Bikher-Tsenter (formerly the National Yiddish Book Center), located on the...

The Joys of Yiddish is a book containing a lexicon of common words and phrases of Yinglish—i.e., words originating in the Yiddish language that had become...

neighborhood in Belarus. In another instance, a government-produced Yiddish film called Seekers of Happiness told the story of a Jewish family from overseas...

for starring in the Yiddish-Ukrainian drama Shttl, which premiered at the London Film Festival and in competition at the Rome Film Festival. Lobel was...

Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish...

("Song of Songs") is a 1935 lost Yiddish-language film. Samuel Goldenberg Dora Weissman Anna Toback Mierele Gruber The film is based on the Shir Hashirim...

Menashe (Yiddish: מנשה) is a 2017 Yiddish-language American drama film directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January...

Egypt (Yiddish title: Yoysef in Mitsraim) is a 1932 American historical drama film directed by George Roland and starring Joseph Green. The film is based...

Yankel "Jacob" Kalich (Yiddish: יעקב קאַליך, 18 November 1891 – 16 March 1975) was a Yiddish theater actor, director, and producer. Kalich was born in...

The Dybbuk (Yiddish: דער דיבוק, Der Dibuk; Polish: Dybuk) is a 1937 Yiddish-language Polish fantasy drama directed by Michał Waszyński and choreographed...

The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (Russian: Попугай, говорящий на идиш) is a 1990 Soviet adventure film directed by Efraim Sevela. Ramaz Ioseliani as Yankel...

favorite project of all her work in film and television. She has theorized that her delivery of Yiddish dialogue in the film helped her obtain what is now one...

Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye der milkhiker [ˈtɛvjə ˌdɛr ˈmilxikər]) is the fictional narrator...

Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...

Пинхасович Томашевский, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; Yiddish: באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי) (1868–July 9, 1939), born Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky...

Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman, also the subject of the 1964 musical Fiddler...

Fields (Yiddish: גרינע פֿעלדער, trans. Grine Felder) is a 1937 American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami. The film features...

in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish theater and one of the few directors of Yiddish-language films. He made four Yiddish films that he shot on location in...

Yiddish Summer Weimar is an annual summer institute and festival for Yiddish music, language and culture which takes place in Weimar, Germany. Starting...

Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...

1916 – July 15, 2011) was an American film and stage actress, who began her career in Yiddish theater and films. She was sometimes credited as Helen Beverly...

Yidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddish: אידל מיטן פֿידל, "Yiddle With His Fiddle", Polish: Judeł gra na skrzypcach), is a 1936 musical Yiddish film. Arye and his daughter...

the poor in their community. The film explores the uniqueness of the Yiddish language. To prove the sting of a Yiddish insult, one survivor says, “May...