Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German Department will offer a full-year course in elementary Yiddish next fall. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, will teach the course which is limited to 20 students...
Elementary Yiddish A will include grammar, composition, conversation and an emphasis on reading fluency. Eckehard Simon, associate professor of Germanie Languages and Literature, explained that if student support is good next year, the German Department would in the future offer courses in Yiddish literature and intermediate level Yiddish...
...idea to include Yiddish in the curriculum stems from a proposal by students who are enrolled in an extracurricular Yiddish. program sponsored by Hillel...
...what of the future of Yiddish? It is said that if a Yiddish reader dies, there is no one to replace him. But Singer has some comfort for Yiddish scholars. "We have now in the world about three-and-a-half billion people," he said. "A hundred years from now there will probably be a hundred billion people the way we multiply. And every one of these hundred billion people will need a topic for a Ph.D. And you can imagine what they will do to Yiddish. They will bring up every book-good or bad every manuscript, and write...