Courses in the Yiddish language, literature and culture will be offered by the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations on the campuses of five leading American universities through a subsidy provided by the Farband-Labor Zionist Order. The schools are Harvard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis University, Northwestern University and the University of California at Los Angeles.
The joint project, which is intended to stimulate interest in Yiddish culture among university students was announced today by Jacob Katzman, general secretary of the Farband, and Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn, director of the Hillel Foundations. The Farband subsidy will amount to $250 per semester on each campus. The courses offered will vary from school to school.
At Northwestern University, the Hillel Foundation will offer an advanced course in Yiddish classics and a basic course in the Yiddish language. Elementary and intermediate Yiddish will be taught at M.I.T. Conversational Yiddish will be taught at Brandeis University and elementary modern Yiddish at Harvard. Yiddish courses at UCLA will be taught by a former member of the Warsaw Yiddish Theater.
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