Kibbizter, kvetcher, nudnick, nebbish, nudzh, meshugener, alter kocker, pisher, plosher, platke-macher These ten ...

With wedding season upon us, it’s the perfect time to use my favorite Yiddish saying — mit eyn tokhes ken men nit tantsn af tsvey khasenes, or “You can’t dance at two weddings with one behind.” Tokhes ...

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 ...