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Are We In The Midst Of A Yiddish Renaissance?

8/15/2026 • 66 min

Are we currently experiencing a Yiddish renaissance? This is one of the questions we are often asked at YIVO. YIVO’s own community of Yiddish learners has expanded more than 10-fold in the last two years. Duolingo has added Yiddish as a language. Headline after headline touts Yiddish as unexpectedly alive and well. What does this all mean for Yiddish in the 21st… Play episode

Huang Chongkai, "The Formosa Exchange" (Honford Star, 2026)
Michael R. Griffiths, "The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought" (…
Tsering Döndrup, "The Red Wind Howls" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Yiddish Language During the Holocaust
Abdelwahab Meddeb, "Returns to Marrakesh / Retour à Marrakech" (Syracuse U…
Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Ter…
Mohamed Alyahyai, "The War" (Dararab for Publishing and Translation, 2026)
Marie Léticée, "Camille's Lakou" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
Daniel Cohnitz and Jussi Haukioja, "Foundations for Metasemantics" (Oxford…
Becoming the System
Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language…
Amy J. Heineke and Kristin J. Davin, "Pathways to the Seal of Biliteracy: …
Samantha Ellis, "Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Cu…
Manasicha Akepiyapornchai, "Surrender to God Across Languages: Multilingua…
Islam in English
Amrita Chowdhury and Ujaan Ghosh trans., "Baidehisha Bilasa: The Amorous P…
Romani Grassroots Language Learning
Terao Tetsuya and translated by Kevin Wang, "Spent Bullets" (HarperVia, 20…
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, "Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious W…
Gregory Kenicer, "Scottish Plant Names: An A–Z" (Birlinn, 2026)
Yiddish Ethnography and An-ski
Patrick S. D. McCartney, "Sanskrit-Speaking' Villages, Linguistic Utopias …
Learning Languages on Social Media
Matthew R. Crawford and Aaron P. Johnson, "Cyril of Alexandria: Against Ju…
Elina Penner, 'Nightberries" (CMU Press, 2026)
Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and …
Georgia C. Ennis, "Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Me…
Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
Yiddish: Biography of a Language
Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish…
Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in C…
Elena Foulis, "Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Ex…
The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion
Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in …
Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside th…
Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listen…
Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”
Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Pr…
Older Adults Learning English in Berlin
Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: …
Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Mi…
Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)
Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural …
Teaching English Pronunciation
Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Cen…
Yiddish in Israel: A History
Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" …

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