Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature & Culture
Dear YIVO Community,
Since 1968, the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture has run every summer in New York City. Given the extraordinary circumstances of the current moment, we have decided to take the unprecedented step of making the Summer Program remote this year.
Conducted via Zoom, YIVO’s 2020 Summer Program will provide the same peerless instruction in Yiddish language and culture it has provided for over 50 years. The program will run in full, with a number of innovations and additions to meet the needs of the virtual classroom. Teaching from New York, Montreal, and Israel, our world-class faculty will join students across the globe as an international community in our own digital Yiddishland.
In light of the current pandemic and these updates to the program, we have extended the deadline for both the general application and financial aid to May 29th. If you have any questions about the application or the program, please email Ben Kaplan, Director of Education, at bkaplan@yivo.cjh.org.
Until then, blaybt zhe ale gezunt un shtark (may you all stay healthy and strong)!
The Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, established in 1968, is the oldest intensive Yiddish summer program in the world. Our 6-week program offers classes from beginner to advanced levels and a wide variety of cultural and enrichment activities. Under the auspices of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Bard College, the program offers peerless instruction in the Yiddish language and an in-depth exploration of the literature and culture of East European Jewry and its diaspora communities. The Weinreich Program treats Yiddish as a living language and emphasizes spoken Yiddish. We believe this approach will be helpful to all students, whether they plan to make Yiddish an integral part of their daily life or use it mainly for research.
YIVO is now accepting applications for the 2021 Summer Program.
For more information:
For additional questions, contact:
Ben Kaplan
Director of Education
(212) 294-6153
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