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A Brief Introduction to Yiddish Literature
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Ancient Ideas, Modern Questions

This course will introduce students to some of the greatest authors of the modern Yiddish literary tradition as it developed from the late 19th century onward—and will demonstrate that everything people think they know about Yiddish-speaking culture is wrong. Beginning with works by the “Three Classic Writers” Mendele Mokher-Seforim, Sholem Aleichem, and Y.L. Peretz, we will continue [...]
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165 East 56th Street, 4th Floor, New York, New York, United States 10022
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Contact Name: Kate Havard Rozansky
Email: krozansky@tikvahfund.org
Phone: (212) 796-1672

Association for Jewish Studies
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The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) was founded in 1969 by a small group of scholars seeking a forum for exploring methodological and pedagogical issues in the new field of Jewish Studies. Since its founding, the AJS has grown into the largest learned society and professional organization representing Jewish Studies scholars worldwide. As a constituent organization of the American Council of Learned [...]
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15 West 16th Street, New York, New York, United States 10011
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Email: ajs@associationforjewishstudies.org

Basic Facts About Yiddish
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The basic grammar and vocabulary of Yiddish, which is written in the Hebrew alphabet, is Germanic. Yiddish, however, is not a dialect of German but a complete language‚ one of a family of Western Germanic languages, that includes English, Dutch, and Afrikaans. Yiddish words often have meanings that are different from similar words in German. The term "Yiddish" [...]
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Bibliotheca Iiddica – Yidisher literaturgeshikhte
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These pages present the help of Muse in the Latin language - now also in the Greek, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Czech - fact and fiction. they sing not only of "arms and men," but also of "fullers and howlers." Bernardus Carnotensis said that "we are like dwarfs mounted on the shoulders of giants, so that we [...]
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Lilienthalstr. 5, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany D-86159
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Contact Name: Prof. em. Ulrich Harsch
Email: harsch@fh-augsburg.de

California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language
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We counter the tide that separates most Jews alive today from their own remarkable heritage. We seek to inspire the local and broader Jewish community by illuminating a uniquely creative and influential culture that was shattered in its prime. We challenge the fog of lost memory and ignorance about Yiddish that puts a vast and precious vital legacy at [...]
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333 Washington Blvd., #118, Marina del Rey, California, United States 90292
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Contact Name: Miriam Koral
Email: ciycl@yiddishinstitute.org
Phone: (310) 745-1190

Center for Jewish History
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Home to five distinguished partner organizations. The largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. Center for Jewish History and partner collections span five thousand years, with tens of millions of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, [...]
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15 West 16th Street, New York, New York, United States 10011
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Email: inquiries@cjh.org

Center for Jewish Studies – Harvard University
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Yiddish is a thousand-year-old Germanic fusion language that was once spoken by most of the world’s Jews and spread to every continent. Although the number of Yiddish speakers has decreased dramatically following the disasters of the twentieth century, Yiddish is still the mother tongue of many Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities. It also remains the basis of dynamic secular [...]
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6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 02138
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Email: cjs@fas.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-4326

Chava Rosenfarb
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Chava Rosenfarb was one of the most important Yiddish novelists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her primary subject was the Holocaust; she was a survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen Belsen. She was born in Lodz, Poland in 1923. When she was a child, her father encouraged her to write about her experiences [...]
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Committee for Yiddish of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto: Comprehensive Yiddish Language Classes
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Committee for Yiddish of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto presents a variety of language and culture classes, currently all online: Yiddish Language Classes: Beginning, Beginner-Plus, Intermediate-Plus, Advanced Yiddish Conversation: Beginner and Intermediate Reading Circle (Leyenkrayz): Participants will read and discuss humorous short stories in Yiddish from the anthology “A Bukh Tsum Lakhn”. Materials provided in PDF form.  
Location:
4600 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2R 3V2
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Email: yiddish@ujafed.org
Phone: 416.635.2883 x 5189