It’s a language that was a cornerstone of life for European immigrants and is still spoken fluently in thriving Amish and Mennonite communities across North America and beyond. Longtime Lehigh Valley ...

On April 6, there was a landmark celebration for the Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch Fersommling Fon Baerricks Kaundy (Pennsylvania German Gathering of Berks County). It was the 85th year for this event! The ...

About 300 people came out for the 12th Annual PA German Zammelaaf to celebrate the PA Dutch language and culture at the Midway Diner in Bethel on March 16. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania German ...

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

I'm a Jewish man from New York City, and I grew up in a Yiddish speaking family. Yiddish, though written using the Hebrew alphabet, is largely derived from German. In high school I studied German, ...