About the Uriel Weinreich Program 

Founded in 1968, the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program has served students of Yiddish for 50 years in various locations throughout New York City. After partnering with Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and other institutions, in 2014 the Weinreich Program finally came home to roost: it now shares space with YIVO at the Center for Jewish History in the Flatiron neighborhood. 

About Uriel Weinreich 

Uriel Weinreich, the first child of YIVO founder Max Weinreich, was a prominent linguist who specialized in Yiddish, sociolinguistics, and dialectology. After compiling the groundbreaking Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary, but before its publication, Weinreich died tragically young at the age of forty. 

About our Educational Partnership 

Since 2013, YIVO has partnered with Bard College to make the Weinreich program possible. Essential support from Bard staff and infrastructure allows us to offer students the opportunity to take the program for credit, provides international students with the visas they need to study in the United States, and grants the program the benefit of collaboration with a premier institution of higher learning.