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One of the most important works we do is to receive visitors from all around Israel and beyond, show them our Yiddish collection, and tell them about Yiddish culture. Youth groups, tourists, senior citizen groups, and international visitor groups come every week! We make sure they are touched by their experience of our Yiddish world and hope that they carry the light with them wherever they go.
We have long-standing academic collaborations with researchers around the world. Since 2018 YUNG YiDiSH has worked in partnership with the Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish research group from University College London. This 4-year project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom. YUNG YiDiSH has provided expert knowledge of Hasidic Yiddish language and culture for the project. We also hosted a workshop at YUNG YiDiSH Jerusalem and planned a week-long LagBeOymer Spring School. Our collaboration has yielded several research articles as well as lectures and publications aimed at the general public and the Hasidic community.
If you want to hear a summary of the findings of this project about Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish grammar, lexis, and our community work, you can listen here on YouTube or download the LagBeOymer School poster here.
YUNG YiDiSH has also worked with the Van Leer Institute on a Holocaust memorial and educational project which resulted in two publications following a successful workshop series: התכנסות ליום השואה (Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem) and Aval haitah sham ahava / But There Was Love, Shaping the Memory of the Shoah, eds. Michal Govrin, Dana Haifetz-Freibach, Etty Ben Zaken (Carmel, 2021).