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January 14: Bella Bryks-Klein as "My Father's Daughter" in Rishon LeZion
The one-woman musical show in Yiddish, "Mayn Tatns Tokhter" ("My Father's Daughter") tells a story of survival,...
January 14: Ruth Levin to Sing "Atlantidish" in Tel Aviv
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, the singer & actress Ruth Levin will perform the musical...
The actress Annabella Yaakov passed away
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of the actress Annabella Yaakov - National...
Happy birthday to the actress Lia Koenig
Happy birthday to the Israeli actress Lia Koenig - the National Authority for Yiddish Culture 2016 Life Time...
December 7: Kiryat Ono Music Students to Perform in Yiddish
On Saturday evening, December 7, 2019, students in the music workshop at Ben-Zvi High School...
February 6: Paulina Belilovsky to Sing in Jerusalem
On Thursday, February 6, 2020, the Yiddish singer Paulina Belilovsky will perform at the Ginot...
January 9: Lecture on Yiddish Literature in Jerusalem
On Thursday, January 9, 2020, the touring guide Yaad Biran will lecture about journey...
November 5: Yiddish animation film to be shown in Tel Aviv
On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, the animation film in Yiddish "The silence of Professor Tösla" will be...
July 16: A concert of Lifshitz's students in Tel Aviv
On July 16, 2019, the Yiddish artistic singing workshop, founded by the late Nechama Lifshitz,...
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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
Australia: Monash University, Melbourne
Austria
Vienna University (in the process of establishing a Yiddish program)
Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Brazil: University of São Paulo
Canada
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Denmark: Aarhus University
Finland: University of Helsinki
France
University of UpperAlsace, Mulhouse
Germany
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Lithuania: Vilnius University
Poland
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin
Russia
Saint-Petersburg State University
Sweden: Lund University
Switzerland: University of Basel
Ukraine: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev
United Kingdom
USA
The George Washington University, Washington,D.C.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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