Jewish Languages

Exploring the roots of a Hebrew name.

A Hasidic Take on 9/11

I.B. Singer's ghost haunts Jewish literature to this day.

Esther Singer Kreitman was a published author, but she was overshadowed by her brothers.

Not everyone admired Singer's fiction.

The big screen likes I.B. Singer--but he didn't always like it.

The life and work of Yiddish literature's Nobel laureate.

The magic and zest of Ladino---the Judeo-Spanish Dialect--enliven the novels of Rosa Nissan.

Is the language of Sephardic Jews, undergoing a revival?

Jewish mystics took Judaism's reverence for the Hebrew language one step further, venerating the Hebrew letters themselves and considering them paths to the Divine.

Once considered the language of an older generation, Yiddish is now being embraced by hip twenty- and thirty-somethings.

According to Jewish tradition, Hebrew is the original language of humanity and the language spoken by God.