Probably for the first time in the history of Yiddish in this country, a course in Yiddish literature is being given now in Boston as a college credit course. It is being offered by the University Extension of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with Dr. A. A. Roback, professor at Harvard, as lecturer. It is a course consisting of nine lectures and readings and written assignments will be-expected of credit students. The course is being sponsored by the Community Institute of the Boston Associated Y.M.H.A.s and other Boston organizations.
The subjects which Dr. Roback will take up in this Yiddish course are: Yiddish as an expression of the modern Jewish personality; The Dawn of Yiddish, The Folk Movement, The Pillars of Yiddish Literature (Mendele Mocher Sforim, Peretz and Sholom Aleichem), The Yiddish Short Story and Its Development on American Soil, Yiddish Poetry, The Yiddish Novel, The Yiddish Drama, Yiddish Humor, and The Outlook of Yiddish Literature.
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