Nadia Valman received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for research included in this article. Vivi Lachs received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for ...

Yiddish is a familiar presence in contemporary English speech. Many people use or at least know the meaning of words like chutzpah (audacity), schlep (drag) or nosh (snack). These words have been ...

Sharjah real estate developer Alef has officially launched Hamsa 2, the second residential building within the Hamsa neighbourhood at Al Mamsha. The launch follows the strong market demand for the ...

“Sons and Daughters” is quite probably the last great Yiddish novel. Chaim Grade, who was born in what is now Lithuania, in 1910, and spent the second half of his life in the Bronx, wrote it ...

This seems like it can be a reality as Alef Aeronautics has recently demonstrated in its latest prototype. In the company's recent showcase, Alef shows off how their new Model Zero Ultralight flew ...

Alef Aeronautics, a sustainable mobility company, has made history by successfully conducting a flight test of its flying car in a city environment in California. The company also released a video ...

An ultralight version of Alef Aeronautics flying car was tested by flying over a closed-off city road in a non-densely populated area The public street was closed off, no bystanders were under or ...

Overcoming these challenges requires a combination of innovation, collaboration and commitment—the pillars on which Alef Education operates. Founded in the United Arab Emirates in 2016 ...

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 ...

Evolution is a process that can take many millennia, if not longer. For a scholarly organization like the Yiddish archive and cultural institution YIVO, the process only took a century.

Some years ago, at the annual P.S. 3 book fair, I came across a Yiddish-English dictionary. This was a more serious Yiddish-English dictionary than the somewhat antic one I owned called ...

I doubt that many people would think of Yiddish. In mainstream American culture Yiddish — an Eastern European blend of German with a great many Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic words — is these days ...