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Making Rosh Hashanah Cards

students presenting Rosh Hashana Cards they made.

Every Fall Hebrew & Yiddish come together to celebrate the new Jewish Year by writing Rosh Hashanah Cards together in both Hebrew and Yiddish. This year in Fall 2025 students […]


Spinner Awarded NEH Fellowship

Samuel Spinner Received NEH Fellowship for his Book Project

Samuel Spinner, Assistant Professor, Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Chair in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, received an NEH fellowship for his book project Monuments of […]


Languages Night – Hebrew & Yiddish Tabling

Graduate Students in Hebrew & Yiddish

This spring Hebrew and Yiddish graduate students tabled for undergraduate course registration for Fall 2023 in the Gilman Atrium. The outreach included reading stories, playing games and having conversations with […]


Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew Scripts and Calligraphy Art Workshop

10 students around a large table working on crafts with paper

The Hebrew and Yiddish program held an event as a collaboration between Near Eastern Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures. The event was to bring together students from both Biblical […]


PhD in Jewish Languages and Literatures Applications

The course of study offers training in Hebrew and Yiddish language, literature, and culture in its many transnational iterations and focuses on the modern period while attending to the long […]