Jewish Languages

When I think of home, I imagine the physical space I return to at night, the one with the white-washed ...

Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...

Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...

I’m a Latina Jew. I live in New York City, famous for the diversity of its population; after all, 37 ...

A few days ago my novel,  Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...

Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise ...

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

It took me more than three years to finish  Shlepping the Exile . I had a job as a researcher ...

Plot was the last thing on my mind when I sat down to make a novel out of the stories ...

One of the points I make in my book is that what’s dirty in Yiddish isn’t always dirty in English, and vice ...

In my last blog post, I recounted the background of Yiddish linguist Dovid Katz, who has been reporting on troubling manifestations of ...

“Ensuenyo Te Vi” Three words that normally don’t go together: Ladino, Pop, Pregnant. But in my world they make a ...