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 in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2019
Looking to improve your Yiddish this summer? There are options all over the world, from traditional classroom-based programs to music festivals, and everything in between--and we’ve done the research so you don’t have to.
Jan 20, 2019
Pedagogy
Online Yiddish Language Instruction: A Conversation
A conversation between language instructors who teach and think about online courses, answering a series of questions that we posed in order to reflect on the state of online Yiddish language learning.
Dec 12, 2018
Pedagogy
Stealing the Border: A Reflection on Teaching Yiddish Borderlands Literature
Anna Elena Torres shares her reflections about, and syllabus for, the course “Yiddish Poetics of the Border.”
Sep 27, 2018
Pedagogy
Yiddish Film Activities for the Language Classroom: Teaching with Mamele
Using a short scene from the 1938 film Mamele (dir. Joseph Green, Konrad Tom), Rebecca Margolis demonstrates how short excerpts of Yiddish films can be used to address specific aspects of Yiddish dialect, grammar and idiom, and translation in the Yiddish language classroom.
Sep 24, 2018
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Teaching with Sholem Aleichem
Instructors share their thoughts on teaching with Sholem Aleichem.
Apr 03, 2018
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leyzer Volf's Evigingo (trans. Finkin)
Jordan Finkin offers resources and ideas for teaching this unusual poem.
Mar 12, 2018
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for "Invitation to Participate: Teaching with Sholem Aleichem," by The Editors
Feb 27, 2018
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Person Teaching With Yiddish
Instructors share their thoughts on sharing about their personal lives and commitments while teaching Yiddish language or culture.
Jan 15, 2018