Sholem Aleichem Amur State University (Russian: Приамурский государственный университет имени Шолом-Алейхема), formerly Birobidzhan State Pedagogical Institute, is a university in Russia.

In 2005, it became the Far Eastern State Social and Humanitarian Academy, and in 2011 it was accredited as a university, receiving its current name.

[1] Yiddish is still the region's second official language after Russian, although it is spoken only by a handful of 4,000 remaining Jews.

[2][3] This program includes a workshop on the village of Valdgeym and its Yiddish heritage.

The basis of the training courses is study of the Hebrew language, history and classic Jewish texts.