Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, 58, was born into a legendary Yiddishist family. And with the completion of the “Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary” — co-edited with Paul Glasser — she has become a ...

Monrovia — It was a beautiful Wednesday morning on February 5th, 2025, when Girls In Technology Liberia (GITL) celebrated her 6th anniversary which began with a parade through designated routes on AB ...

Such terms are not found in most Yiddish dictionaries that you would find on library bookshelves. But when Yiddish scholar and poet Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath set out to publish the first ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1975, a largely unknown 23-year-old actor named Carol Kane starred in Joan Micklin Silver’s film Hester Street as Gitl, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant ...

Being compared to one of the most enigmatic, fascinating, volatile and dangerous artists of the 16th-century is perhaps not something to which every ultra orthodox Jewish mother of eight aspires to.