An Open Letter on Yiddish (go)
Supporters and Letter-Writers (go)
Reporting on Yiddish at Maryland (go)
An Open Letter on Yiddish (top)
Many people have written me to express their concern and disappointment over our recent decisions about Yiddish instruction at Maryland. It is true that we will be discontinuing our current arrangement for offering Yiddish. We have found the funds to be able to extend our current level of instruction through the 2010-2011 academic year, but we will not be able to do so after that.
My colleagues and I share your disappointment. The Meyerhoff Center is proud that it has supported Yiddish for fifteen years with minimal support from our university budget. Beyond the classroom, we have invested resources in building our library collections. To date, our holdings include some 8,000 titles in Yiddish, and we expect that number to grow as recently acquired collections make their way to the shelves.
Nevertheless, as I am sure you are aware, the state of Maryland’s unprecedented budget crisis is impacting both the University of Maryland and the greater Maryland community alike. Our current financial reality shelters no unit from the necessity to make significant changes to their budgets. The Meyerhoff Center has had to make such changes to maintain our fiscal responsibility to our university, funders, and most of all, students. Unfortunately, our cuts are not limited to Yiddish, with a significant impact to our faculty, course offerings, and programming.
To the extent that we can continue to offer Yiddish at Maryland, you have my assurance that we will do so. We will not, however, be able to continue Yiddish in the way we have done until now, and will require creative solutions involving the program, the university, and members of the community.
I invite you to join me in helping to find a way to secure the future of Yiddish on this campus.
Sincerely,
Hayim Lapin
Director and Professor (History), Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
Supporters and Letter-Writers (top)
Ms. Toby Altman
Ms. Barbara J. Axelrod
Ms. Mona Baumgarten
Professor Sarah Bunin Benor
Mr. and Mrs. Roberta and David Benor
Dr. Barry Berkey
Mrs. Velma Berkey
Ms. Helen Birnbaum
Professor Marc Caplan
Mr. Stuart Carlow
Ms. Ellen Cassedy
Mr. Ted Chaskelson
Ms. Blanche Cherpack
Ms. Marilyn Cohen
Mr. Joel L. Cohen
Rabbi Jonathan Cohen
Mr. Frank Cohen
Mr. Charles Corfield
Mr. Mark David
Dr. Martin Dean
Mr. Jerry Dunietz
Ms. Joan Edwards
Ms. Sue Eisenfeld
Mr. Gene Fellner
Mr. Irving N. Flyer
Ms. Gischa Friedman
Ms. Sheila Gale
Professor Lewis Glinert
Ms. Myrna Goldman
Dr. Earle R. Hasband
Mr. Joseph J. Honick
Professor Arnold L. Horelick
Mr. Murray Horwitz
Ms. Rachel Leah Jablon
Professor Claude Kacser
Dr. N. Stephen Kane
Mrs. Barbara Kaplowitz
Ms. Lydia Kleiner
Ms. Sara Klompus
Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Rose Kohn
Ms. Debby Kover
Mr. Allan Kover
Professor Marc Kramer
Ms. Jessica Krash
Ms. Mollee Kruger
Dr. Jerome Kruger
Ms. Malka Kutnick
Mr. Aaron Lansky
Mr. Ira Levine
Ms. Edith Levine
Mr. Norman Lewin
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Libarkin
Mr. Seymour Lichtman
Ms. Sarra Liskovets
Ms. Tina Lunson
Mr. Ira Merselman
Professor Leonard Nadler
Mr. Jack Olender
Ms. Freida S. Paskow
Mr. Harry Peerce
Mr. Juan Prawda
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Raphael
Mrs. Sandra Reiss
Mrs. Rita Rubinstein
Ms. Martha Schrenk
Mr. William L. Schrenk
Ms. Rhea Schwartz
Ms. Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Ms. Doris Dunietz Shapiro
Professor Robert Moses Shapiro
Dr. Shelby Shapiro
Dr. Martin Shargel
Professor Ben Shneiderman
Mr. Milton Shore
Ms. Esther Shuster
Ms. Eve Sicular
Mr. Maurice Singer
Mr. Douglas R. Smith
Ms. Regina Spiegel
Ms. Malka Stopak
Mr. Jonathan H. Sunshine
Mr. Louis Taub
Ms. Helen Traiman
Ms. Alezah Weinberg
Ms. Annabelle Weiss
Ms. Henrietta Wexler
Ms. Anita Willens
Mr. Wayne Zaideman
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Reporting on Yiddish at Maryland (top)
Washington Jewish Week 11/25/09
Washington Jewish Week 1/13/10
Baltimore Sun
Yiddish Forvertz
Washington Post
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