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How Yiddish found a home In Sweden (online lecture in Yiddish)

JL;DR SUMMARY Sweden uniquely supports Yiddish as an official minority language, which has led to a flourishing of Yiddish culture within the country. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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YiddishJewish StudiesSwedenPublishingYork UniversityOlniansky TextJan SchwarzMinority LanguageWoodskis VrldUja Committee For Yiddish

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Lund, Skåne, Sweden
"In an online lecture in Yiddish, Jan Schwarz, a Yiddish literature scholar at Lund University, will explain this development."

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