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"Yiddish in Postwar Germany": a one-week intensive program on the history of the Yiddish language and its speakers in Germany after the Second World War, particularly in the camps for Jewish Displaced Persons and in Munich.❋ Intensive language courses for advanced students, at two levels, taught by Dr. Sharon Bar-Kochva and Dr. Natalia Krynicka (Bibliothèque Medem, Paris)
❋ Lectures and workshops at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
❋ Tours of Jewish Munich after the war
❋ Wednesday, February 24: day trip to the BADEHAUS Memorial Site in Wolfratshausen, on the grounds of the former DP camp Fernvald (Föhrenwald), with a meeting with Berl Salamander, who lived in the camp
Most of the program will be in Yiddish.
Tuition is €330, plus a €50 registration fee. Scholarships are available for participants in financial need.
Apply by Saturday, October 31, 2026: https://jiddisch-in-deutschland.de/
Participants arrange their own accommodation. Looking for someone to share a room? Post in the discussion here.
Organized by Dr. Tal Hever-Chybowski (Halle-Wittenberg), Dr. Alexandra Polyan (Regensburg), Philip Schwartz, M.A. (Düsseldorf) and Dr. Daria Vakhrushova (LMU Munich), in partnership with the BADEHAUS Memorial Site. Supported by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University) and the Kronhill Pletka Foundation.
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1,Munich, Germany
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