The article discusses the reasons behind the prevalence of Yiddish words in English with German spellings.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a new online course, "Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America," exploring the origins of Jewish humor in the Borscht Belt comedy circuit and its evolution to modern-day comedy on social media.

In this episode, the discussion focuses on how Chassidus effectively countered the Haskalah movement.

"Emancipation Terminable and Interminable" by David Sorkin explores the history of Jewish emancipation from the 16th to the 20th century.

Moses Mendelssohn, an influential 18th-century Jewish philosopher, was celebrated for advocating Jewish rights, promoting modernity, translating the Bible into German, and producing the political-philosophical work "Jerusalem."

Jonatan Meir's publication of a three-volume set delves into Joseph Perl, an 18th-century maskil from Galicia who actively promoted the Haskalah ideology while vehemently opposing Hasidism, viewing it as a corrupt and defiling movement.

Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, a student of Rabbi Israel Lipkin Salanter, founded the Talmud Torah of Kelm, a unique yeshiva blending tradition with elements of the Haskalah movement in Lithuania.

Solomon Maimon, a controversial Jewish philosopher in the late 18th century, narrated his life in an autobiography where he critiqued the brutality and irrationality of traditional Jewish education.

In 1785, Moses Mendelssohn, a prominent Enlightenment philosopher and a symbol of religious tolerance, found himself embroiled in a controversy sparked by Friedrich Jacobi's public disclosure that their mutual friend, Lessing, had embraced Spinozism.

In her book "The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague," Sharon Flatto revisits the legacy of Ezekiel Landau, the Noda Biyehudah, challenging the notion that he was antagonistic towards Jewish mysticism.