Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his ...
Chen's appointment follows an antisemitism task force's call for Columbia to hire more faculty who are not anti-Zionist.
The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and around the world In 1947 New Jersey, leaders of the New York-based YIVO ...
PBS series examines the complex history of Black and Jewish alliances, their divisions, and need for unity against white nationalism.
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
When Jewish prisoners were interned during the Holocaust, the Yiddish language went through a metamorphosis — changing and expanding to include new words about their brutal everyday existence. What ...
The first edition of Bread and Freedom came out on Nov. 11, 1906. From the collection of the National Library of Israel, courtesy of Broyt un Frayheyt (Bread and Freedom) On a late summer day in 1906, ...
"Yiddish: A Nation of Words" (Steerforth, 303 pages, $26) by Miriam Weinstein. For all its warmth and joy, and now nostalgia, Yiddish remains a fairly curious language. Its words are culled from a ...
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies offers undergraduates the opportunity to earn a minor in Yiddish and East European Jewish Culture. The broad objective for the minor is for students ...
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John Efron digests centuries of German Jewish history, including medieval meat markets and a Nazi era obsession with kosher ...
When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...