Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Yiddish encyclopedia
ALBANY — A local professor will spend the summer researching an encyclopedia written in the Yiddish language in the 1930s in Berlin and translate parts into English.
University at Albany assistant professor of Judaic studies Barry Trachtenberg was awarded $6,000 to research Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (the General Encyclopedia).
“Very few people are aware of the story of […]