16.07.2008
The Second Birobidzhan
International Summer Yiddish Program
August 19 - September 1, 2008You 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@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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