26th Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany

From September 4th to 6th, 2023, the 26th Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany took place in the city of Trier. This annual academic event is organized jointly by the Trier University and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, which has active programs for linguistic and cultural Yiddish studies. The symposium is not just a local academic forum, but also an international phenomenon. This year, in addition to researchers from Germany, it involved their colleagues from Israel, Poland, France and the US.

It is important to note that Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany is currently the only regular scientific forum in the world at which reports are presented and discussed in Yiddish as one of the event’s working language, the other one being German. 10 of the 22 reports presented at the 26th symposium were in Yiddish. Some of them are scheduled to be published in the magazine Yiddishland, as it was done with some materials from the last year’s program.