Yiddish became one of the world’s most widespread languages. But it was considered a dying language for decades after two-thirds of European Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Now the COVID-19 ...
From The World and PRX, this is The Number in the News. Today’s number: 80. The worldwide sensation that is the "Harry Potter" series has been translated into over 80 languages. One of the latest ...
A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a National Jewish Book Award shows, such a work is not only real, it testifies to ...