One of the most important work 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, international visitor groups come every day! 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 were planning to run a week-long LagBeOymer Spring School, which unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.
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: