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Jewish Tribune closes after more than 60 years

May 26, 2026, 10:56 am

Jewish Tribune newspaper closes after more than 60 years in print

Historic Orthodox title ends publication after saying financial pressures made it “no longer commercially viable”

By Annabel Sinclair

Song 1 (Frilingslid) in the original songbook.

January 26, 2026, 5:09 pm

Holocaust-era songs composed in Nazi ghettos published for first time in English

Translated from Yiddish, the historic collection documents experiences of Jews attempting to survive Nazi persecution

By Michelle Rosenberg

Screenshot: Vilnius University, with Yiddish and tool enabling Hebrew translation

November 19, 2025, 12:37 pm

Vilnius University creates new AI tool recognising handwritten Yiddish texts

The new technology means letters, autobiographies, and diaries that remained unread for decades will become discoverable to communities seeking to reconnect with their past

By Michelle Rosenberg

Boris Johnson speaks to Ruislip Synagogue members

June 9, 2024, 12:35 pm

Boris Johnson criticised over ‘Sir Keir Schnorrer’ newspaper article

Former PM accused of 'offensive' use of Yiddish term to attack the Labour leader Keir Starmer

By Jewish News Reporter

A photograph of a business selling Rosh Hashanah cards on the Lower East Side in 1936 and a photograph of the Eldridge Street Synagogue taken in 1930, both by Percy Loomis Sperr. (Courtesy Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library.)

March 22, 2024, 8:50 am

The New York Public Library’s Jewish division digitised 800 years of Jewish history

The collection includes the very first edition, in 1897, of the Yiddish daily newspaper Der Forverts, scripts of plays from the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch and photos of the Lower East Side from more than 100 years ago

By Julia Gergely JTA

Launching on March 21 and running for seven weeks, the comedy masterclasses dig deep into the essence of the Jewish funnyman.

March 5, 2024, 10:42 am

This really is a laughing matter

Free online webinar serves up a deep dive into the history of Jewish comedy.

By Jenni Frazer

Igor Polesitsky, of Klezmerata Fiorentina: 'It's a very different way of dealing with music'

February 12, 2024, 11:22 pm

Klezmerata Fiorentina: traditional music doesn’t get more authentic than this

Igor Polesitsky, who learnt klezmer from his grandmother’s voice as well as from one of the greatest classical and Yiddish violinists in his native Ukraine, is bringing his virtuoso quartet to London

By Beatrice Sayers

September 5, 2023, 11:51 am

New York Times publishes bizarre article claiming Zionism is an “enemy of Yiddish”

Widespread disgust as opinion piece by Ilan Stavans claims Hebrew is a language that “symbolises far-right militarism"

By Michelle Rosenberg

June 21, 2023, 11:01 am

‘Queer, Yiddish’ anti-capitalist anarchist café closes after ‘unchecked antisemtism’

Co-owners of Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe say its closed this week after staff suffered 'harassment' from 'self-described leftists' and from 'a right-wing backlash'

By Lee Harpin and JTA

May 12, 2023, 11:03 am

Farvos bistu Romeo?* First Yiddish Romeo and Juliet on sale at London’s book fair

Extraordinary edition debuts at London's Saatchi Gallery from 19 May. (* Wherefore art thou Romeo?)

By Michelle Rosenberg

The stunning New West End synagogue in Bayswater

March 10, 2023, 1:10 pm

OPINION: My alternative guide for the spiritually homeless

Where do you go if you don't feel at home at a synagogue? Jewish News' Michelle Rosenberg has created her own personal version

By Michelle Rosenberg

March 3, 2023, 1:26 pm

OPINION: Justified criticism of Chasidic schools, but unnecessarily slanted

Author and historian Derek Taylor is concerned the Times' report "Scandal of unsafe schools where Jewish boys can barely read or write English" falls short of required standards.

By Derek Taylor

The Jewish cemetery in Worms Heiliger Sand, Rhine-Hesse, Germany

February 6, 2023, 7:33 am

Germany celebrates UNESCO World Heritage listing for sites known as birthplace of Yiddish, Ashkenazi culture

They were recognised by the United Nations’ education and cultural body in July 2021, but the coronavirus pandemic delayed Germany’s celebration of the designation.

By David I Klein (JTA)

January 13, 2023, 11:04 am

A new translation of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores much of his Jewish musings

Czech author's uncensored journals have just been published and include every entry of his personal diaries between 1908 and 1923

By Andrew Lapin (JTA)

(Wikimedia Commons; collage by Grace Yagel) via JTA

October 19, 2021, 12:59 pm

Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive

Languages being taught - including Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Neo-Aramaic and Karaim - range in number of speakers, from millions to none.

By JTA

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