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Yiddish Language Program--For Release
- From: Rich Dikeman <rd125...>
- Subject: Yiddish Language Program--For Release
- Date: Wed 10 Jan 1996 21.26 (GMT)
Press Contact:
Jeffrey Salant
(212) 246-6080
fax (212) 292-1892
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1996 COLUMBIA/YIVO YIDDISH SUMMER PROGRAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
NEW YORK CITY--January 9, 1996--Applications are now being accepted for the
Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, which will
take place on the Columbia University campus from June 24 to August 2, 1996.
The program, jointly
sponsored by the Max Weinreich Center of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
and Columbia University, is a six-week, non-matriculating, three-credit college
course offered on three levels: elementary, intermediate and advanced. The
program proper wi
l
l be preceded by an optional two-week review session for intermediate and
advanced students beginning on June 10. Elementary students with no reading or
writing knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet are required to attend a one-day
reading and writing works
h
op on Sunday, June 23.
People worldwide have discovered the importance of Yiddish as a key to
understanding a significant component of the Jewish heritage. Every summer for
the last twenty-eight years, several dozen people from diverse backgrounds,
professional pursuits and p
l
aces as far-ranging as Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Argentina, China and
Australia make their way to New York City to study Yiddish in the world's first
and most acclaimed, college-level Yiddish-language program.
Many summer program students have gone on to become fellows of the Max
Weinreich Center, an accredited institute for advanced study of East European
and American Jewish history and culture. Others have entered graduate programs
in Jewish studies offered
by major universities throughout North America, Europe and Israel. The program
has thus served as an essential stepping stone in the careers of such prominent
scholars in the field of Yiddish as Janet Hadda, Michael Stanislawski, Jack
Kugelmass and Iren
a
Klepfisz.
Participants in the program not only learn the fundamentals of Yiddish grammar
and read Yiddish literary classics, but also explore the riches of East
European and American Jewish culture through lectures in Yiddish and English,
Yiddish films, Yiddish co
n
versation groups and a variety of workshops in translation, theater, folksong
and traditional dance.
As a means of expanding the opportunities for verbal practice and creating a
feeling of camaraderie, out-of-towners are given the option of staying in
single rooms in Yidish hoyz, a Yiddish dormitory suite on campus. Excursions
to Jewish points of inte
r
est in and outside of New York City add depth and immediacy to subjects covered
in the classroom.
Dr. Allan Nadler, Director of Research at YIVO, has called the program "an
intensive, intellectually stimulating experience, whose rewards remain
throughout one's lifetime." For an application including information on
housing and partial scholarships,
c
all, fax or write to Jeffrey Salant, Director of Yiddish Language Programs,
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 555 West 57th Street Suite 1100, New York,
NY 10019, (212) 246-6080, fax (212) 292-1892. The deadline for scholarship
applications is March 2
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- Yiddish Language Program--For Release,
Rich Dikeman