Pedagogy

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 29, 2020

A call for ped­a­gogy posts on teach­ing about his­tor­i­cal and present-day issues of class and labor.

Jan 13, 2020

Sarah Zarrow dis­cuss­es and reflects on her course ​“Rep­re­sent­ing Jew­ish East­ern Europe in Film” in which she asks stu­dents to think his­tor­i­cal­ly about the images of Jew­ish life in East­ern Europe, using films as pri­ma­ry sources that speak not only to a his­tor­i­cal real­i­ty of their sub­ject mat­ter, but that also to the ide­ol­o­gy and his­tor­i­cal cir­cum­stances of the film­mak­er and of Jew­ish life in the time and place the film was made.

Nov 20, 2019

Adri­ana X. Jacobs on her com­mit­ment to lit­er­ary translation.

Nov 12, 2019

Lawrence Rosen­wald con­sid­ers the uses and mean­ings of lit­er­al trans­la­tion in the classroom.

Nov 05, 2019

The lat­est in our series in which we poll Yid­dish stud­ies instruc­tors about a top­ic relat­ed to their teach­ing. This time, we want to know whether and how you intro­duce the top­ic of the Holo­caust in your Yid­dish lan­guage instruction.

Oct 15, 2019

The pur­pose of this doc­u­ment is to fill some of the gaps in the YIVO sys­tem of translit­er­a­tion for bibliographies. 

Jul 02, 2019

Nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry Ger­man atti­tudes toward Jew­ish speech are a pow­er­ful way to under­stand the per­va­sive­ness and nor­mal­iza­tion of anti­semitism in Ger­man soci­ety even at a time when geno­cide was unthinkable. 

Jun 17, 2019

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

Jun 10, 2019

Apr 28, 2019