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Most of us can relate to having unfinished projects. Imagine dedicating 25 years of your life to creating an all-encompassing dictionary — yet, never getting past the first letter. This is the story ...

To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews. In the hallways of New York’s YIVO ...

The Free Dictionary is available for Mozilla and Chrome browsers. It is also available for Windows, iOS and Android mobiles. This is one of the best dictionary extensions as finding the words is very ...

When Ben Kaplan and Alex Weiser started working at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, they heard one of its essential legends in the form of a joke. The 100-year-old library and archive, whose ...

Those of you waiting for the web browser known as Opera to join us here in the future – the future that includes "Retina" and otherwise high-definition displays galore – now is your day in the sun.

Opera, like sweetbreads or Jerry Lewis movies, is an acquired taste that a lot of people never acquire. There isn’t much middle ground. Opera is either felt to be one of civilization’s most ennobling ...

In the hallways of New York’s YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the story was told as a punchline: the great Yiddish dictionary project that took 25 years and never got beyond the first letter of ...

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word - as opera "The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language," an original chamber opera, premieres at YIVO, dramatizing the post-Holocaust ...