The first classes in the Massachusetts department of uni-university extension’s course in Yiddish literature for college credit will be held in the Boston Public Library on the evening of March 12. There will be a series of nine lectures given by Prof. A. A. Roback of Harvard University. This is the first time that Yiddish courses have been given for college credit anywhere in the United States.
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