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The Vilnius Yiddish Institute Vilnius University, History Faculty Universiteto 7 Vilnius 01513, Lithuania
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The VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE is the first Yiddish center of higher learning to be established in post-
Holocaust Eastern Europe. It is an integral part of the four-century-old Vilnius University, situated in the heart of the magnificently restored Old City, in a thriving new democracy. The Institute is dedicated to preserving the centuries-old heritage of Yiddish language and culture through teaching and scholarly research of the highest quality. Further, through intensive instruction by an outstanding international faculty the Institute aims to foster genuine literacy in Yiddish among new generations of students from Europe, the Americas, and beyond, and to train young new teachers and scholars in the field. Finally, inspired by its unique location in Vilna, the once fabled “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” the Institute cherishes the hope of nurturing new cultural contributions in Yiddish.
Boris Sandler gave a lecture at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Boris Sandler, an editor of the Yiddish newspaper "Forverts ", visited the Vilnius Yiddish Institute on September 6, 2011. He gave a lecture entitled...
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The 2011 Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish has started!
The Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish was launched on 24 th of July. This is the 30 th year of the Program and 13 th year in Vilnius. The...
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The VYI's staff members contribute to a new book
The essay collection "A Pragmatic Alliance. Jewish-Lithuanian political cooperation at the beginning of the 20th century" discusses the political...
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