In 1934, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin announced the creation of the USSR's Jewish Autonomous Region, Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border. This secular, humanist region's official language was Yiddish: newspapers, street signs, school materials were all in Yiddish. After the Holocaust and the purges of Stalin's regime, Yiddish all but disappeared from the streets of the JAR.
This summer, the Birobidzhan Far Eastern State Academy for Humanities and Social Studies, with the guidance of Prof. Kotlerman of Bar-Ilan University, has established the "International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture."
See the entire article, here.
To see the program's prospectus and perhaps apply, go to the Summer Yiddish program in Birobidzhan site.