Yiddish

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Asya Vaisman, a young teacher of Yiddish at the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, USA.

A two day international symposium on Yiddish at the UNESCO's quarters begins tomorrow, the 12th November 2012 in Paris and our European correspondent Max Kohn spoke, just ahead of the gathering in Paris, with Mendy Cahan the founder and director o...

We remember and honour the Jewish Australian and other combatants, on this Remembrance Day, the 11th of November.

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Prof Avrom Novershtern about the Yiddish language and literature courses at Beit Sholem Aleichem in Tel-Aviv and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Theres absolutely no connection between these stories, except for the timing, as Alex Dafner reports these two events from Australia. Firstly the main Australian air passenger carrier QANTAS reassures holders of Israeli passports and visas that t...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the writer Berthe (Brukha) Burko-Falcman about her deep love of Yiddish, the Medem Centres and Library in Paris and memories of her childhood as a hidden child in France during WWII.

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

Questions are being raised about the Australian Labor Governments policy on Asia announced in a White Paper last Sunday. The policy calls for more teaching of Asian languages in Australian schools, and making Australian business leaders more awar...

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with Rachel Jediniak about her frightening years as a hidden child during WWII in France and difficult life after the war in Paris, as well as her current dedication to telling the children in the French ...

Jerusalem correspondent Adam Gruzman reports on the main events, which occurred in and around Israel.

Georgette Blajchman talks with our European correspondent about her childhood memories of life as a child in Vichy France and her current work telling students in Paris about the Holocaust .

Calls are being made to lift or abolish the age restriction for General Skilled Migrants to Australia. At present the cut-off is 50 years. Alex Dafner presents this report prepared by Andrew Bolton of SBS News and Current Affairs.  

Georgette Blajchman recounts her childhood memories of life as a hidden child in Vichy France, in this interview with Max Kohn in Paris.

Our European correspondent Max Kohn speaks with the Adi Mahalel who is doing his PhD doctorate at Columbia University in NY, on the Yiddish classicist I L Perets during his radical years, .