Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

Yiddish is back in Mokum

Yid­dish is once again being taught at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam after an eight-year hiatus.

Pedagogy

Reconstructing the Bibliography of a "Master Criminal"

Despite the pop­u­lar­i­ty of Urke Nachal­nik’s writ­ings in inter­war Poland, bib­li­o­graph­ic resources on the fig­ure have been scant, until now.

Pedagogy

Elie Wiesel at the Forverts: A Bibliography

From 1956 – 1967, Eli Wiesel wrote for the Forverts, pub­lish­ing more than 1,000 arti­cles under his giv­en name, Eliez­er Wiesel, and about two dozen install­ments of a lit­er­ary col­umn under a pseu­do­nym, Elisha Karmeli. Aman­da Miryem-Khaye Seigel has com­piled a list of these arti­cles to aid researchers. 

Pedagogy

Yiddish in Georgia

Sarah Biskowitz speaks with Lasha Shaku­lashvili about Yid­dish in the South Cau­cusus region and his new role teach­ing Yid­dish at at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbil­isi State Uni­ver­si­ty (TSU).

Pedagogy

A Google Calendar for Yiddish Teachers / אַ גוגל־קאַלענדאַר פֿאַר לערערס פֿון ייִדיש

A Yid­dish instruc­tor cre­at­ed a Google cal­en­dar with dates that are impor­tant for Yid­dish lan­guage and lit­er­a­ture and shares thoughts about how it can be use­ful for teaching.

Pedagogy

Di froyen”: Two Students’ Experiences

In this arti­cle Olive Ben­i­to-Myles and Nao­mi Piper-Pell reflect on their expe­ri­ence attend­ing the con­fer­ence Di froyen” at the Yid­dish Book Center.

Pedagogy

Progress Report: Reflections of a First-Time Yidish-lerer

A first-time Yid­dish teacher reflects on strate­gies and assign­ments that allow stu­dents to see and appre­ci­ate how much they have learned.

Pedagogy

Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2023

Check out In geve­b’s annu­al com­pi­la­tion of Yid­dish-relat­ed lan­guage pro­grams and cul­tur­al events this summer.

Pedagogy

Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners

Saper’s course, Antifas­cist Yid­dish for Begin­ners,” grew explic­it­ly out of their per­son­al, polit­i­cal, and artis­tic com­mit­ments and was cre­at­ed for the com­mu­ni­ty they call home: an inter­gen­er­a­tional group of artists and activists, most­ly queer and trans left­ist Jews.

Pedagogy

My Way into Yiddish: Reflections of an Adult Learner

Lau­rie Fish­er, a Jew­ish Stud­ies pro­fes­sor who hap­pens to be a stu­dent of Yid­dish, reflects on her expe­ri­ences as some­one who came to learn­ing Yid­dish lat­er in life.

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