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Vilnius Yiddish Educator Seminar 6—20 May 2005
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Интенсивный курс идиша
Вильнюсский семинар для профессиональных преподавателей идиша, 6-20 мая 2005 года
The Vilnius Yiddish Educator Seminar
6—20 May 2005
An Advanced Intensive Program Conducted Entirely IN YIDDISH
for PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS and TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING
A program sponsored by THE FRIENDS OF THE VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE, with generous assistance from the RIGHTEOUS PERSONS FOUNDATION
Interest in serious study of Yiddish language, literature and culture continues to grow internationally. At the same time, the “secondary Holocaust effect” takes its toll daily, as the last living masters who came to intellectual maturity before 1939 — writers, teachers, scholars, editors, performers, cultural organizers — reach the end of their days, often defiantly working for the cause of their beloved heritage deep into old age.
Yiddish is nowadays taught at many levels, particularly in university credit programs, and in adult education and community settings. There is also some progress in the introduction of the language and its literature at the elementary and secondary level in Hebrew days schools and other Jewish educational establishments. The academic and pedagogical interest is growing. Motives range from the desire to reconnect to one’s roots to the need for competence for researching language and literature in Jewish, Slavic, Baltic, Germanic and other fields.
In the realm of secular Yiddish studies, there are very few university educators who have also published books in Yiddish and have taught advanced courses in Yiddish (rather than just “about Yiddish”). The Educator Seminar brings together four of them. They are Ms. Miriam Hoffman of Columbia University in New York; Professor Dovid Katz of Vilnius University; Professor Dov-Ber Kerler of the University of Indiana at Bloomington; Professor Yitskhok Niborski of the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.
Each of the four instructors will concentrate on a specific aspect in which he or she is an acknowledged specialist. All four have taught Yiddish in university contexts for decades, and their cumulative expertise in Yiddish education means that issues that come up in teaching Yiddish in the twenty-first century will be dealt with extensively and openly, with full respect to the various competing approaches in today’s Yiddish educational market of ideas.
Participants must be professional teachers or teachers-in-training in a recognized institution. All participants will be taught by all four instructors. In addition to classroom work, there will be daily written homework. The program is conducted entirely in Yiddish.
To apply for a place in the program, applicants are asked to write a letter of application in their own words, explaining their current employment, as well as plans for introduction or enhancement of their Yiddish language teaching in the framework of their appointments. Please enclose a current curriculum vitae, and arrange for two letters of recommendation, one of which should be from a dean, director, principal or other recognized academic supervisor from the applicant’s current institution.
The tuition fee is US $1800, which entitles applicants to full participation in the program, copies of all study materials, and appropriate university credit upon successful completion of the academic requirements. Note that notices of credit from the university provide details of hours, instructors and grades; it is up to participants’ home deans to decide on the local apportioning of credit. Participants are responsible for their travel, lodging and meals; program staff can assist with information on the available options and logistical support. For information please contact project coordinator Olga Bliumenzon at: yiddisheducator@yahoo.com.
A number of tuition scholarships are available. Moreover, the organizers are actively seeking scholarship donations to enable the participation of qualified applicants who do not have access to the necessary funds, including participants from Eastern Europe.
The Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Vilnius University
Universiteto 7
Vilnius 2734, Lithuania
Educator Seminar email: yiddisheducator@yahoo.com
Vilnius Yiddish Institute email: institute@yiddishvilnius.com
Summer Course email: info@yiddishvilnius.com
www.yiddishvilnius.com
telephone: +3705 268-7187
fax: +3705 268-7186
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