Reporter Hundreds of guests and students participated in a most successful conference on Yiddish which recently took place at the University of Haifa.
Yiddish culture has a new momentum in Israel.
The Israeli Knesset even established a special authority to promote the Yiddish culture and heritage in Israel. This conference was organized by Haifa University together with Shalom Aliechem House in Tel Aviv and the prestigious Lerner Foundation for the promotion of Yiddish. One should note the special efforts and dedication of the organizers Rachel Rozansky, history professor and Yiddish scholar at Haifa University and Abraham Noverstern, a distinguished professor, a scholar of Yiddish literature at the Hebrew University. Dr. Rozansky took great care of the details of this successful conference and managed to contribute to its prestige and public relation campaign. It is clear that this conference was a unique one and therefore will encourage more Yiddish scholarship in Israel.