The Tel Aviv Yiddish Summer Program
The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Beth Shalom Aleichem
Language, Literature, and Culture at
TelAvivUniversity
Since the 2007-2008 academic year at Israeli universities will continue through the month of July as a result of a nation-wide faculty strike, it will not be possible to hold the Tel Aviv International Yiddish Summer Program this year.
We are committed to this program which has attracted students from around the world and throughout Israel for the past two years, and we intend to offer it again during the summer of 2009, with language classes at four levels, literature classes, and a full cultural program.
If you planned to study with us this year, we hope that you will return to us the following summer. We look forward to seeing you in Tel Aviv!
The Tel Aviv Yiddish Summer Program
The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Beth Shalom Aleichem
Language, Literature, and Culture at
TelAvivUniversity
YUNG YiDiSH Book and Cultural Center
A vibrant summer program in Yiddish language and culture, launched in 2006, will once again take place at TelAvivUniversity. Under the auspices of the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University, Beth Shalom Aleichem, and Yung Yidish, this four-week program from June 24 until July 19, 2007, offers intensive Yiddish instruction on campus at the beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels, as well as a rich afternoon program of lectures, tours, theatre, concerts, museums, films, and cultural events.
As students of the School for Overseas Students at TelAvivUniversity, whose credentials are recognized by universities world-wide, participants will receive 80 hours of language instruction (four credits) with highly qualified and experienced teachers in small classes and will be housed in dormitories adjacent to the campus. Language instruction will be supplemented by lectures given by leading scholars in the fields of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.
The Summer School's cultural program will include music and poetry workshops, Yiddish theatre, meetings with Yiddish writers, events at the Yiddish Writer's hub Beth Leivick, Beth Shalom Aleichem and YungYidishCulturalCenter, musical performances (including Klezmer), films, museums, and Yiddish walking tours. During leisure hours, Tel Aviv offers museums, cafes, Bauhaus architecture, the beach and the promenade, clubs at the old harbor and throughout the city, open air markets, summer street festivals, and the charm of old Jaffa with its artist colony.
A significant number of scholarships are available, and students are encouraged to complete the scholarship form along with the registration form and send it to the Goldreich Institute not later than May 15, 2007.
The cost of the program is $ 1200 for tuition, $300 for housing (only double occupancy), and a $60 registration fee.
Academic Program Directors of the Tel Aviv Yiddish Summer Program:
Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher
Director, the Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at TelAvivUniversity
Prof. Avraham Novershtern
Director, Beth Shalom Aleichem
Director of the Cultural Program
Mendy Cahan
Director, YUNG YiDiSH
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