The Jewish tradition of debate is at the center of a new chamber opera about two scholars clashing over a Yiddish dictionary ...

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

Alex Weiser and Ben Kaplan's "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" tells the story of a battle to preserve a lost ...

In a country rich in traditional textiles, motifs and crafts, it’s a tragedy that little has been done to document their histories, relevance and the role they play in the lives of those who create ...

Over the course of her acting career, Alice M. Gatling has portrayed a wide variety of roles, but in E.M. Lewis’ “Dorothy’s Dictionary” she gets to play one of her favorite kinds of people – a ...

A controversial comic book term has found itself inside an official dictionary. Gail Simone helped coin the term “fridging” when she created the Women in Refridgerators list back in 1999. The list ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday released a general introduction book and the first volume of comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages at the ...

About three years ago, I reviewed the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. It's one of the few higher-end Chromebooks and is an impressive machine. Still, it doesn't look like Framework will make more ...

A groundbreaking dictionary documenting the evolution of the Arabic language has been launched in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Named the 'Historical Corpus of the Arabic Language', this extensive ...

Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story like all ...