Word: yiddishe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since 1959, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel is offering Harvard students a class in introductory Yiddish...
Gold, who taught Yiddish at Harvard in 1970 and 1971, said Yiddish was part of the Harvard curriculum until last year, when course instructor David Fishman accepted an assistant professorship at Brandeis University...
Gold says he feels the recent upswing in interest in Yiddish stems from students wanting to read literature and to preserve their ties to "family" and to the "destroyed community" of Yiddish-speaking Jews who died in the Nazi Holocaust...
...million Jews around the world and 1 million in the United States spoke Yiddish before the Holocaust. "You could travel through the world [and hear Yiddish spoken everyplace]," says Gold. "To me, it is more than just a language...
Woman And Writer: Questions of Identity in Yiddish Poetry: Kathryn Hellerstein, Women in Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies, 5 Bryant...