[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements---Yiddish program in Birobidzhan

[Victor Bers]

MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature
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From: kotlerb at mail.biu.ac.il<kotlerb at mail.biu.ac.il>

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


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