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Bar-Ilan Has Comprehensive Yiddish Chair
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indicated, will be to train
teachers of Yiddish for
Israel's high schools in
conjunction with Bar-
Ilan's School of Educa-
tion. Though Yiddish has
been accepted as an elec-
tive language in Israel's
high schools since 1975, it
has seldom been taught
because of the lack of
qualified teachers.
Among the courses to be
offered during the current
academic year, he said,
were elementary Yiddish,
advanced Yiddish, the Mes-
sianic idea in Yiddish liter-
ature from Peretz to Leivik,
readings in Sholem
Aleichem, ideas and issues
reflected in the major works
and an in-service course for
Yiddish high school
teachers, in cooperation
with Israel's Ministry of
Education.
In keeping with Bar-
Ilan's commitment to tradi-
tional Jewish values, the
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chair will emphasize the
spiritual dimension of the
Yiddish medium, Prof.
Winer said.
"Students will delve into
the works of authors for
whom Yiddish was the ve-
hicle for spiritual probing_
and ethical and moral con-
frontations. Writers in Yid-
dish have dealt with both
national and universal
themes, with historic is-
sues, with the quest for in-
dividual freedom and social
justice and the search for
religious truth.
"Researchers will also
investigate the Yiddish
elements in the Hebrew
writings of rabbinic
scholars and Hassidic
sages," Prof. Winer said,
noting that the chair will
sponsor "conferences in
problems of Yiddish cul-
ture, creativity and edu-
cation."
Activities of the Chair,
Prof. Winer noted, will be
augmented by an Institute
for Yiddish Culture at Bar-
Ilan, now in the planning
stage. Among the projected
activities of the institute
are:
• Establishment of a
Yiddish library.
• Expansion of Yiddish
courses and the addition of
specialized courses dealing
with Yiddish music,
folklore, theater and drama,
press and the Yiddish labor
movement.
• Preparation of Yid-
dish text books for uni-
versities and high
schools in Israel.
• Fellowships
for
graduate students prepar-
ing doctoral dissertations in
Yiddish.
• Academic conclaves for
professors of Yiddish from
overseas universities.
• Conferences
for
authors, educators and aca-
demicians.
• Sponsoring the ap-
pearance of Yiddish
"authors in residence" at
Israeli universities.
Among the chief sponsors
of Yiddish programs at
Bar-Ban University is Wal-
ter W. Artzt of Palm Beach,
Fla.
Hebrew U. Works on Dictionary
(Continued from Page 1) to Dr. Yehiel Szeintuch, a
that it has come to fruition. lecturer in the Yiddish de-
It is the university's elec- partment. Dr. Szeintuch,
tronic "Golem" — more whose area of expertise is
commonly known as a com- Jewish cultural activism in
puter — that is providing Europe before and during
the ability to complete the the Holocaust, was the
vast classification work in- originator of a project
volved in a reasonable undertaken jointly with
period of time.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust
"We estimate that Memorial Authority in
one volume will- be pub- Jerusalem. Its subject:
lished every two years," Jewish creativity in the
says Dr. Meir Solff, who is ghettos and concentration
in charge of the project. camps.
"At this stage, the work is
The result of the under-
being planned for the taking was a mobile exhibi-
next 10 years."
tion which was first held at
In addition to the Yad Vashem and then at
Jerusalem end of the proj-
`Who Is a Jew'
ect, work is also underway
on it in New York, where
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
the dictionary's chief editor, Premier Menahem Begin
Prof. Marvin Herzog, is has asked the Agudat Israel
based. Jerusalem is work- to refrain for the time being
ing on the second letter of from pressing for a Knesset
the alphabet, beis, while vote on • the controversial
New York is engaged in "Who Is a Jew?" issue.
compiling the entries for the
The proposed amendment
third letter, gimmel. to the Law of Return failed
Entries for the first letter, to pass a preliminary test in
aleph, have filled four pub- parliament last summer.
lished volumes,- or about
Begin has committed
one-third of the entire dic- himself to the Aguda to do
tionary.
all he can to assure adoption
The study of Yiddish is of the measure which would
inseparable from the study establish Orthodox criteria
of the Holocaust, according in law to determine who is a
the Jewish National and
University Library on the
Hebrew University's Givat
Ram campus.
The exhibition is to be
the first step in the com-
prehensive documenta-
tion of the history of the
Jews in the ghettos and
camps, Dr. Szeintuch
notes.
Among the courses of-
fered by the Yiddish De-
partment are Holocaust re-
search, semantics, litera-
ture and folklore — all in
Yiddish of course. The de-
partment currently has 47
students at all levels.
Issue Stalled
Jew.
After last summer's fail-
ure, he told the chairman of
the Aguda Knesset faction,
Avraham Shapiro, to try
again when a Knesset
majority seems assured.
Shapiro apparently be-
lieves the time is ripe, since
the Begin government now
has a comfortable majority
in the Knesset. But he was
told by Begin to hold off be-
cause of the delicate politi-
cal situation in the country
and the strong opposition to
the measure in the U.S.
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