Program

Education Programs: Education Development and Demonstration

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1979

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$775,000.00 (approved)
$775,000.00 (awarded)


Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies

FAIN: ED-*0488-74

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Nathan Reich (Project Director: February 1974 to October 1990)

To enable MWC to 1) restructure its own curriculum through the institution of core courses and a continuing faculty; 2) introduce undergraduate courses in Yiddish studies; 3) to initiate an advanced Yiddish Studies Institute to be held each summer in conjunction with a colloquium for advanced graduate students and college teachers to be devoted to problems both of teaching and researching the Yiddish language, literature and culture.