The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies

The Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies was established in 1983 as a Chair for Yiddish Studies. Over the years, it has evolved into a vibrant and respected academic center within the Department of Literature of the Jewish People, in the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
The Rena Costa Center is one of the few institutions in Israel—and indeed, the world—that offers students the opportunity to specialize in Yiddish as part of their undergraduate and graduate studies. Students at the Center receive rigorous linguistic training, enabling them to read both literary and scholarly texts in Yiddish. They are introduced to a fascinating array of genres and subjects that reflect a millennium of Jewish life, thought, and creativity.