Yiddish spoken with an Oxford accent may result from a program to be launched by the Oxford center for Post-graduate Hebrew Studies, under the guidance of its principal, Dr. David Patterson. The intensive one-month course, to be held there in August, is being organized because of the growing interest in Yiddish among academics and laymen, David Katz, a research Fellow at the Oxford Center said.
It will be led by specialists drawn to Oxford by the valuable collection of 19th century Yiddish volumes housed in the university’s Bodleian Library. About 40 students are expected to take part in the summer course, whose academic staff will include Prof. Eugene Orenstein of McGill University, Montreal; Columbia University’s Elinor Robinson, a non-Jewish specialist in Yiddish; and Katz.
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