Advanced Yiddish Academic Program, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, February 9-16, 2026

Cluj-Napoca, Romania
 
Organized by the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, Bar-Ilan University (Israel), and the Dr. Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania), in cooperation with the Yiddish, Jewish, and Slavic Studies units of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Regensburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and Sorbonne University.
 
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INSTRUCTORS

Dr. Alec Leyzer Burko

Dr. Alec Leyzer Burko

UC Berkeley and Indiana University, USA (former lecturer)

Dr. Augusta Costiuc-Radosav

Dr. Augusta Costiuc-Radosav

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 

Prof. Ber Kotlerman

Prof. Ber Kotlerman

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Vira Lozinsky

Vira Lozinsky

World-renowned musician and Yiddish singer, Israel

Dr. Michael Lukin

Dr. Michael Lukin

Bar-Ilan University, The Hebrew University, and Jerusalem Music Academy, Israel 

Dr. Alexandra Polyan

Dr. Alexandra Polyan

University of Regensburg, Germany

Philip Schwartz

Philip Schwartz

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Prof. Karolina Szymaniak

Dr. Karolina Szymaniak

Sorbonne University, France

Dr. Daria Vakhrushova

Dr. des. Daria Vakhrushova

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

 

 

Last Updated Date : 19/01/2026