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This course provides you with an overview of the development of Yiddish children’s literature, from the mid-19th century to today. You will learn about how leading Yiddish authors and artists created works that are still popular. The…

You will study important events and ideas in modern Jewish history from critical perspectives and within a broader historical context. In the first module, we focus on the social, cultural, religious, and political life of Jews in Eastern…

You will explore how Yiddish developed in the Germanic countries during the Middle Ages and how it spread to Eastern Europe, the USA, and many other countries. Unlike Hebrew, which was used by the Jewish intellectual elite, Yiddish was…

Yiddish is one of Sweden's national minority languages, ​​and 51ÖØ¿ÚÁÔÆæ is the only university in Scandinavia that offers teaching and conducts research in Yiddish. Knowledge of Yiddish is valuable for those who want to learn more…

In the first of our two introduction courses in Yiddish, your knowledge of morphology, syntax and vocabulary in Yiddish is deepened in relation to what is obtained at the beginner level. In addition, your oral and written language skills…

The course allows students to deepen their knowledge of Yiddish morphology, syntax and vocabulary as well as their ability to translate between Yiddish and Swedish/English. The student's oral and written language proficiency is…

The course provides in-depth language skills in Yiddish and in its culture and literature. It contains a scholarly focus on literature and culture and pays particular attention to scholarly method and theory in relation to texts and other…

The course focuses on historical processes and their role in shaping identity in modern Russia and its Eastern European neighboring countries (such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova), which were part of the Soviet Union before 1991. Key…

The course critically reflects on theoretical approaches and concepts applied in studies of Belarus and Ukraine, such as postsocialism, postcolonial space, democratisation,and neoliberal transformations. It looks at how events and…