Ever wonder what Ashkenazi Jews baked for Purim, aside from homentashen? Learn about it in this special Purim edition of “Yiddish Word of the Day” by Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. You’ll also hear ...

In this installment of This, That or The Other, contestants must determine the origin of some unusual phrases. Yiddish Proverb, Klingon Proverb, Or Bob Marley Lyric? Is the quotation "death is an ...

1. Cuban proverb: When the sun rises, it rises for -----. 2. Arab proverb: Examine what is said, not who -----. 3. African proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go -----. 4 ...

Maven, schmooze, schlock, kvetch, nosh: they're just a few of the Yiddish-origin words that have made their way into American dictionaries. Tracing the history of the Jewish lingua franca not only ...

"May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground!" Or, as it goes in the original Yiddish: "Zolst vaksn vi a tzibele mitn kop in dr'erd!" That's just one of the colorful curses to be found in ...