Pedagogy

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

Pedagogy

Making Headlines at the University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Rachel Kran­son brought stu­dents in a course on Jews and the City to the Text and Con­text” lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh library to print head­lines on a work­ing 1890s print­ing press.

Pedagogy

Shulamis from the Stage to the Classroom

Sug­ges­tions for instruc­tors who might want to teach Shu­lamis (1881) by Avrom Gold­fadn in their Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, or lit­er­a­ture classrooms.

Pedagogy

Tsugob: Urke Nachalnik on the Yiddish Stage

Last spring we pub­lished Jon­ah Lubin’s overview and bib­li­og­ra­phy of Mas­ter Crim­i­nal” Urke Nachal­nik. Now, he has expand­ed this research to dis­cuss how Urke Nachal­nik was rep­re­sent­ed in pop­u­lar Yid­dish culture.

Pedagogy

REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe - Revolutionizing the Field with Primary Sources

This plat­form for pri­ma­ry source mate­ri­als, syl­labi, mod­ules, online cours­es, and reflec­tions gives instruc­tors of East Euro­pean his­to­ry the tools to address par­a­dig­mat­ic changes in the field in their teaching.

Pedagogy

Lomir shpiln! Dungeons, Dragons, and Separable Prefixes

This out­put-ori­ent­ed, task-based les­son plan for advanced begin­ners guides stu­dents through a fan­ta­sy-based role-play­ing adventure.

Pedagogy

Yiddish Learning by New Learners: Two Zines and Two Games Student Projects from the Steiner Program’s Intermediate Class

Exam­ples of project-based learn­ing in the inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish class­room, from the fab­u­lous stu­dents of Rivke Mar­golis’s Inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish Class at the Stein­er Pro­gram of the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter, sum­mer 2023.

Pedagogy

Resources for Teaching about Israel/Palestine

As the war in Israel/​Palestine con­tin­ues to unfold, we aim to sup­port our read­ers, many of whom are teach­ers and stu­dents of Yid­dish, as they look for ways to learn about and dis­cuss these events in mame-loshn.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During Conferences

What more can I do for my coun­try, now so bad­ly in need of sup­port, except for teach­ing minor­i­ty lan­guages and Slav­ic-Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture of Ukraine?

Pedagogy

Compendium to Found Treasures

The aim of this com­pendi­um is to make Yid­dish orig­i­nals for the sto­ries in Found Trea­sures eas­i­ly avail­able and to pre­serve some of the mate­ri­al­i­ty of the editor’s task of col­lect­ing these short stories.

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