Yiddish program in Birobidzhan
Deborah Hoffman
lino59 at AMERITECH.NET
Wed Jul 16 02:53:06 UTC 2008
(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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