Yesterday, we published a story about the final semester of Yiddish classes at the University of Maryland, College Park, and about the general decline of Jewish communal interest in academic study of Yiddish.
We have just confirmed with Director Hayim Lapin, however, that the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies there recently secured $120,000 in funding to keep Yiddish classes running through 2013. The center plans to publicize this information next week in greater detail.
