Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, July 20, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/07/2001072001u.htm

Florida International U. Uses the Internet to Teach Yiddish
By SCOTT CARLSON

A Jewish cultural center in Florida has turned to the Internet to revive an age-old language: Yiddish. The courses, Yiddish I and, beginning this fall, Yiddish II, are being taught at Florida International University. The courses are sponsored by the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, which has hired the professors, paid for the equipment, and subsidizes the students' tuition. David Weintraub, the director of the center, says that his organization's Yiddish courses are the first....

 



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