Yiddish language and literature are taught in dozens of universities and colleges around the world. Below is a list of institutions in alphabetical order of their countries, according to our current records. If there are universities with Yiddish studies which are not included here, or if you have found any inaccuracies, please inform us.

Israel

Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan

Tel Aviv University: language; literature    

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er-Sheva

Haifa University

Ariel University

Australia: Monash University, Melbourne

Austria

Salzburg University

Vienna University (in the process of establishing a Yiddish program)

Belgium

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

University of Antwerp

Brazil: University of São Paulo

Canada

University of Ottawa

University of Toronto

McGill University, Montreal

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

Denmark: Aarhus University

Finland: University of Helsinki

France

Université Paris - Sorbonne

University of UpperAlsace, Mulhouse

Germany

Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

Hamburg University

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich

Trier University

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Lithuania: Vilnius University

Poland

Warsaw University

University of Wrocław

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Russia

Maimonide Academy, Moscow

Moscow State University

Saint-Petersburg State University

Sweden: Lund University

Switzerland: University of Basel  

Ukraine: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev

United Kingdom

University College, London

Oxford University

USA

Columbia University, New York   

The George Washington University, Washington,D.C.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

The Boston Language Institute

University of Maryland

University of Wisconsin, Madison

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ohio State University, Columbus

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Indiana University, Bloomington

University of California at Berkeley