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The Vilnius Yiddish Institute Vilnius University, History Faculty Universiteto 7 Vilnius 01513, Lithuania
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Visiting Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Mr Velvl Chernin, PhD is a visiting professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Dr Chernin joined the VYI in its aim to teach students from Lithuania and around the world who want to study Yiddish and allied subjects in the culture’s native milieu, benefiting from proximity to the human, cultural, architectural and natural environment of Jewish Lithuania. Together with members of the VYI's core team Dr Chernin is working to fulfill the international need of joining profound immersion in the East European Jewish studies with high academic standards.
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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.
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