To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the ...

Premiering this week, 'The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language' tells the true story of Holocaust survivors and émigré scholars in NYC racing to salvage a civilization ...

How would we document Australianisms like “fair suck of the sauce bottle” and “no wucken furries” without a guide?

The United Nations General Assembly designated the International Day of Sign Languages, 23 September, an occasion that  marks a chance to celebrate and protect the language and culture of deaf people ...

Hebrew is the language of statehood—and also of study and prayer—yet the community we actually have is a polyphony stitched ...

Johnson defined ‘oats' as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"-but ...

During the Jewish High Holy Days, clergy take the pulpit before community members who yearn for a narrative to explain these ...

Kentucky hemp farmers sent a letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell asking him for a meeting and to not again try to insert language ...

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, is linked to autism, despite ...

An hourlong press conference about autism was filled with false and misleading claims about the condition and vaccines from ...

A seedless lemons will be considered as such if, in a sample of 100 units, no more than six contain seeds, whether fully developed or undeveloped.

LANGUAGE is one of the most vital characteristics of a people. In the same way, Guyanese words and terms are a defining factor of who we are, languages all across the world are a way of connecting ...