The Forward

Iran’s Jewish languages are dying. Can intrepid linguists save them before it’s too late?

For centuries in Iran, each Jewish community had its own language. Judeo-Iranian languages include Esfāhāni, Yazdi, Kermāni, Shīrāzi, Hamedāni, Kāshāni, Nehavandi, Borujerdi, Khunsāri and Golpāygān.
Smith College

Jewish Studies

The program in Jewish studies at Smith College explores the history, literature, arts, politics, philosophy, culture, religion and languages of the Jewish people from its origins in ancient Israel ...
The Forward

Now translated into 49 Jewish languages: the Jewish spring ritual of counting the Omer

(JTA) — There are 49 days between the second night of Passover and the holiday of Shavuot, but who’s counting? Jews the world over, in fact, and in languages familiar and obscure. The daily counting ...
Jewish Press

Purim, Language, and Jewish Identity

Roughly five hundred years before the Purim story, history entered a new phase. For the first time, large multi-regional empires emerged. In the late tenth and ninth centuries BCE, Assyria rose to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

When you invite your ancestors into your sukkah, consider bringing their Jewish languages in, too

On Sukkot, we strengthen our local communities, hosting elaborate meals with relatives and friends and leaving one wall of the sukkah open, symbolizing hospitality. Sukkot also invokes the Jewish ...
Brandeis University

Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture

Kayitz Kef/Hebrew at Camp gives American Jewish youth the ability to converse in Modern Israeli Hebrew and to own contemporary Israeli culture as part of who they are. Hebrew provides rich and ...