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The course places strong emphasis on reading, text comprehension and oral and written language proficiency, mainly through reading Yiddish literature. Students train to analyse and explain Yiddish grammar. The course has a stronger focus…

Sholem Aleichem's most important works include his monologues Milkman Tevye, Railway Stories and Menakhem Mendel. These works are discussed and analyzed in relation to the crisis that Russian Jewish culture underwent from the beginning of…

The course provides an overview of the fundamental features of the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust with a main focus on the cultural expressions of this remembrance in Europe (Western Europe, Central Europe and the former Soviet Union)…

This course focuses on both morphology and syntax. You will work practically with exercises to become confident in formulating correct and varied sentences in Yiddish. You will also practice writing on various topics and collaborate with…

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…