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Judeo-Kashani, the Endangered Language of Iran's "Little Jerusalem"
- Pacific Time Virtual Program
$150.00
Part 1 of our new series, Language Keepers: Documenting Endangered Jewish Languages
Co-sponsored by the HUC Jewish Language Project
Learn the essential skills of language preservation while documenting a critically endangered Jewish language.
For centuries, a thriving Jewish community lived in Kashan, Iran, speaking Judeo-Kashani—a unique, now critically endangered language unintelligible to outsiders. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the community dispersed, and only a few elderly speakers remain. This course offers a rare chance to help preserve the language. You will gain practical, hands-on experience in the essential skills of language preservation while working directly to document Judeo-Kashani. In six weekly 90-minute sessions, this course provides training in linguistics and fieldwork through lectures, interactive exercises, and collaborative work with some of the language's last native speakers.
What You'll Learn:
You may participate synchronously (joining each week on Zoom) or asynchronously (self-studying with the video afterward), as all sessions will be recorded.
Curious? Learn more about Judeo-Kashani and efforts to document and preserve it here.
(Note: The class will not meet on Dec 1.)
IMPORTANT NOTE: Zoom link/details will be emailed to you once you complete registration, one week before your program AND the day before. Please keep this information in a location easy to find.
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