Themes of Warsaw’s Yiddish summer program are health and sports in Jewish history
The three-week program will feature Yiddish on all levels, both in person and online, and several lectures in English
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Yiddish literature scholar David Roskies’ extraordinary archive now accessible online
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Yiddish linguist Dovid Braun is appointed YIVO’s Academic Advisor in Yiddish
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