Jewish Culture

Images of earth and air co-mingle in this Jewish painter's enduring work

Ashkenazi "Old Country" music found new life in America in the late 20th century.

The Jewish people's traditional language has a storied past.

The People of the Book have created a sizable corpus of secular prose and poetry.

Spiritual preparation for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur can make the holidays that much more meaningful.

Jews from Ukraine have made essential contributions to Jewish thought and culture, and have also brought world-class talent to science, art, politics and more.

How to ensure the traditional Jewish wedding dance is a continuous stream of joy, and not a log jam.

The Jewish ethnic identity most readily recognized by North Americans -- the culture of matzah balls, black-hatted Hasidim, and Yiddish -- originated in medieval Germany.

The unlikely history of a Hasidic melody.

Widely believed to derive from Aramaic, the phrase appears nowhere in classical Jewish sources.

This slogan of Jewish resilience was popularized by the legendary songwriter Shlomo Carlebach.

Even as fewer American Jews spoke Yiddish at home, various Yiddish words and phrases were adopted into the American lexicon.