Course summary

The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2022). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas. The MSt in Yiddish Studies is designed to enhance the linguistic proficiency, academic competence, and cultural literacy of aspiring scholars, instructors and educators in the field of Yiddish language and literature. The MSt in Yiddish Studies is suitable both for candidates wishing to proceed to a research degree and for those who wish to spend only one year at Oxford. The MSt in Yiddish Studies offers a variety of subjects central to the linguistic, literary and socio-cultural history of pre-modern and modern Ashkenazic (Yiddish-speaking) society. Subjects will be taught by Yiddish specialists and the degree comprises:

• a paper in Modern Yiddish literature

• a paper in the history of the Yiddish Language

• an option paper (previous options have included: Old Yiddish Literature: Between Folklore and Literature; Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Literature; Modern Yiddish Poetry; Yiddish Drama and Theatre; Sociology of Yiddish; and History of Yiddish Studies)

• a dissertation.