Yiddish at Columbia
By: exhibit curator, Michelle Chesner
Contributors: Columbia University. Libraries
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Yiddish language; Exhibitions; Study and teaching; Curricula; Yiddish Theater; Dialects; Yiddish newspapers; Columbia University
Description: Columbia University was one of the first institutions in the United States with a Yiddish program, and its Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry is still a critical resource in the study of the many variants of the Yiddish Language.  In honor of the digitization of the LCAAJ fieldnotes, Columbia University Libraries mounted an exhibition highlighting Yiddish at Columbia - both the vibrant academic research in the area as well as the deep and extensive collections.