REMINDER: Course Applications

This is a friendly reminder to students of all ages and levels to apply to courses for the autumn term. Many courses are held in the vernacular tongue, but some are held in English – please see the individual links below. In Sweden, the term application closes on the 15th of April, so does theContinue reading “REMINDER: Course Applications”

COURSE: Jewish and Christian Bible Translations. LUND/Zoom

Next term, starting in January of 2025, SOL (Språk och Litteraturcentrum at Lund University) will give a course on the history of translations of the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament. This course will focus on Yiddish translations but also work with German, English, and Swedish renditions, especially shining a light onContinue reading “COURSE: Jewish and Christian Bible Translations. LUND/Zoom”

Autumn 2024 courses in Yiddish at Lund University: apply by 15th of April

Yiddish was once spoken by Jews in an area in Eastern Europe, spreading from Alsace to the Urals. In the 20th century, mostly but not only due to the Holocaust, it neared extinction, and is today on UNESCO’s list of definitely endangered languages: it is also one of Sweden’s national minority languages. Yiddish language andContinue reading “Autumn 2024 courses in Yiddish at Lund University: apply by 15th of April”