Pedagogy

This teach­ing guide for Leon Kobrin’s short sto­ry ​“Blessed is the True Judge” offers brain­storm­ing ideas, dis­cus­sion ques­tions, and essay prompts for high school and col­lege class rooms. 

Oct 28, 2021

A teach­ing guide for Kadya Molodovsky’s A Jew­ish Refugee in New York (trans. Ani­ta Norich) in the con­text of refugee literatures.

Apr 05, 2021

Dec 21, 2020

This teach­ing guide offers dis­cus­sion ques­tions and class­room activ­i­ties to use along­side an episode of the fem­i­nist Yid­dish pod­cast Vay­ber­taytsh.

Mar 02, 2020

Mark I. West offers sug­ges­tions for teach­ing Jacob Glat­stein’s 1943 Anti-Fas­cist chil­dren’s poem.

Jun 10, 2019

This teach­ing guide offers sug­ges­tions and reflec­tions from sev­er­al schol­ars about teach­ing erot­ic Yid­dish poetry.

Apr 09, 2019

Jor­dan Finkin offers resources and ideas for teach­ing this unusu­al poem. 

Mar 12, 2018

The third in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Taub’s trans­la­tion of Blume Lem­pel’s sto­ry ​“The Debt.”

Sep 28, 2017

The sec­ond in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Maia Evron­a’s trans­la­tion of Yoy­sef Ker­ler’s poems ​“Old Fash­ioned” and ​“The Sea” (1979).

Jan 17, 2017

The first in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s trans­la­tion of Isaac Meir Dik’s intro­duc­tion to his 1868 adap­ta­tion of Har­ri­et Beech­er Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cab­in (1852).

Oct 25, 2016