Chinese university embraces an unlikely language: Yiddish

Over the past few years, there’s been revived interest in the Yiddish language, including now in China. The country’s top university, Peking University, is the first in China to offer a Yiddish-language course. The instructor says learning Yiddish offers her students a way to explore a different culture. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai on why students are embracing the endangered language.

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