“linguistics”
Pedagogy
Lexical Innovation and Pedagogical Challenge in the Yiddish Avant-Garde: Teaching Khalyastre to Advanced Learners
Shlomo Groman
Khalyastre as a pedagogical laboratory for advanced Yiddish instruction.
Apr 21, 2026
Pedagogy
Scientific Literature in the Yiddish Classroom: A Lesson Based on a Page from a Chemistry Textbook
Shlomo Groman
Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to highlight how Yiddish functioned beyond its traditional literary boundaries.
Nov 17, 2025
Review
A Rich Linguistic Ethnography of New York: Ross Perlin’s Language City
Sarah Bunin Benor
Oct 27, 2025
Interview
Linguistic Treasures in the Archive: An Interview with Isaac L. Bleaman on the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe
Michelle Margolis and Isaac L. Bleaman
The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe, a digital language archive sourced from Holocaust survivor testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation, is a project funded by a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation that will serve as a resource for Yiddish linguistics, pedagogy, and language revitalization.
Mar 27, 2025
Pedagogy
The reflexive (z)ikh: On learning Yiddish as a linguist
Joshua Raclaw
My background in linguistics has been a tremendous boon to me as a learner.
Nov 18, 2024
Blog
In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language, the dictionary dazzles
Ofer Dynes
In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language: A Chamber Opera, composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan endow enchantment and glamor on their decidedly unglamorous protagonists and, most importantly, heighten our attention to their doubts and torments the way only an opera can.
Jul 25, 2024
Review
Review of Lea Schäfer's Syntax and Morphology of Yiddish Dialects
Rachel Steindel Burdin
Lea Schäfer demonstrates what can be learned about variations in pre-Holocaust Yiddish from the materials of the Language and Cultural Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry.
Jan 08, 2024
Blog
Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A Conference Marking the 15th Yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l)
Zackary Sholem Berger
Yiddish Studies - Present and Future: A conference marking the 15th yortsayt of Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (z’’l) included discussion and debate.
Mar 03, 2023
Interview
Body of Language, Transforming the Language and Culture Archive of Ashkenazic Jewry: An Interview between David Shneer, Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling
David Shneer
David Shneer interviews Rob Adler Peckerar and Alexx Shilling about their project to bring embodied artistic interpretation to bear on a linguistic archive.
May 20, 2019
Article
A Linguistic Bridge Between Alienation and Intimacy: Chabad’s Theorization of Yiddish in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Eli Rubin
Yiddish has always been the oracular mainstay of Chabad's intellectual and spiritual trajectory.
Jan 28, 2019
Interview
Yiddish Linguistics and Digital Humanities: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner about the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazi Jewry
Jessica Kirzane
Feb 12, 2018
Review
Birnbaum and the Distortions of Polemic
Ben Sadock
A review of the new edition of S. A. Birnbaum's Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar
Jun 15, 2017
Pedagogy
Resources in Yiddish Studies: Yiddish Linguistic Scholarship
Zachary M. Baker
This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on publications and other resources devoted to the Yiddish language itself.
Feb 07, 2017
Blog
Searching for Ashkenaz
Ross Perlin
Ashkenaz, the undiscovered country, lies just north of nowhere and a little west of wherever we want it to be.
Jun 07, 2016
Review
The New Yiddish Dialectology: A Review of Alexander Beider's The Origins of Yiddish Dialects
Alec (Leyzer) Burko
Leyzer Burko reviews Alexander Beider's recent monumental volume on the origins of Yiddish dialects.
Jun 05, 2016
Blog
Incomplete Yiddish Philology
Saul Noam Zaritt
Ever wonder why the Yiddish dictionary has only four volumes, all for the letter aleph? Click here to find out!
Aug 09, 2015