Yiddish program in Birobidzhan

[Deborah Hoffman]

(Cross posted from Mendele)
  
DI LETSTE DERMONUNG

The Second Birobidzhan International Summer Yiddish Program 

August 19 - September 1, 2008   


 You can still apply for participating in the summer Yiddish program
 which
will take place in Birobidzhan, Russia, the only place in the world
 where
Yiddish has an official status as the state language. Please write to
 our
Bar-Ilan office yiddish at mail.biu.ac.il with "Summer School" in the
 topic,
till July 27, 2007.
 
The program is intended both for university students as well as anyone
 else
interested in the subject. It will consist of 70 academic hours and a
 host
of cultural events. The students will have the opportunity to
 participate
the ethnographic expeditions covering the breadth of the Jewish region
 as
well as visiting the pioneering settlements, which to this day bear
 Yiddish
names – Birofeld, Naifeld, and Valdheim; meet the original pioneers
 and the
representatives of the Autonomous Region government; visit the local
 Jewish
institutions – the "Birobidzhaner shtern" Yiddish newspaper, the
 local
Radio and Television, the museums, the Shalom Aleichem Library, the new
synagogue and the community center, the old synagogue, the closed
 Jewish
cemetery, Yiddish writer's memorial sites; visit the neighboring city
Khabarovsk; enjoy Shabbat meal ("Tish") at the local Jewish community,
 etc.

For more information see http://www.2all.co.il/web/Sites/yiddishproject


A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. -- R. G. Collingwood

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