Intensive Yiddish course for Holocaust Research

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ANNOUNCEMENT

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

INTENSIVE YIDDISH COURSE FOR HOLOCAUST RESEARCH

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the 2004 Indiana University Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages, announces an intensive language course, Yiddish for Holocaust Research, to take place at Indiana University from June 28 to August 6, 2004.

The course is open to students and scholars from accredited institutions of higher education who have an interest in acquiring a reading knowledge of Yiddish in order to access Jewish source documents and perspectives on the Holocaust and to better understand the Yiddish-speaking Jewish communities of Europe that were targeted by the Nazis. While it is anticipated that most applicants will be at the graduate and post-doctoral level, undergraduate juniors and seniors are also eligible. The six-week course offers participants the equivalent of a full year (6 credits) of college language instruction for reading Yiddish in a single six-week summer session, utilizing the resources of Indiana University, which over several decades has developed and maintained one of the nation's premiere summer language programs. The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies offers programs to develop and support excellence in Holocaust research and teaching, of which this new initiative is a part. Information regarding other Center programs is available at www.ushmm.org.

The course will be conducted from June 28 to August 6, 2004, and will focus primarily on grammar and reading skills for use in research.  Brukhe Lang Caplan, who has taught Yiddish at the Jewish Theological Seminary and in the intensive summer program sponsored by Columbia University and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, will teach the course.  Ms. Caplan received her B.A. from Oxford University and an M.Phil. in Yiddish from Columbia University, where she is pursuing her doctorate with a concentration on Yiddish literature, cultural history, and language instruction.  In addition to intensive language instruction, a weekly seminar on the Holocaust and Yiddish history and culture will be presented by faculty members of Indiana University, and staff and visiting scholars associated with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

The cost of the course, books and single-occupancy housing in air-conditioned university dormitories, will be covered by the program's sponsors. Successful applicants will also receive a meal allowance. Participants will have full access to Indiana University's library, athletic and other facilities, as well as internet access through the University's computer and email system.

All travel costs to and from Indiana University-Bloomington and incidentals are the responsibility of the participants or their respective institutions. Participants are required to attend all six weeks of the course. Six transferable credits will be available for graduate and undergraduate students who wish to have them on their home university transcripts.

Applications must include the following:

1) Resume; 
2) Short statement of the candidate's specific interest in Holocaust studies and Yiddish; 
3) Supporting letter from an academic advisor, department chair, or dean that addresses the candidate's qualifications, objectives for attending the course, and any institutional support being provided. 
 
Applications must be postmarked no later than March 23, 2004. Applications should be sent to the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, addressed as follows:

Dr. Ann Millin
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2150
(Fax: 202-479-9726; E-mail: amillin at ushmm.org).

Candidates will be notified of the results of the application process by April 10.
 
 

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