Sign Up for Mother Tongues: Jewish Languages Across Time and Place

Welcome to Mother Tongues: Jewish Languages Across Time and Place, where we’ll explore four essential Jewish languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Aramaic.

Sign up for this four-part series to discover the history behind each of these languages, and meet some of the people who popularized them. You’ll learn what Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Aramaic can teach us about the periods in which they emerged, and how these languages evolved and survived even when the number of Jews who spoke them dwindled.

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