Pedagogy
Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.
Pedagogy
Stealing the Border: A Reflection on Teaching Yiddish Borderlands Literature
Anna Elena Torres
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
Rebecca Margolis
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
Jessica Kirzane
Instructors share their thoughts on teaching with Sholem Aleichem.
Apr 03, 2018
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leyzer Volf's Evigingo (trans. Finkin)
Jordan 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
Jessica Kirzane
Feb 27, 2018
Pedagogy
לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Person Teaching With Yiddish
Jessica Kirzane
Instructors share their thoughts on sharing about their personal lives and commitments while teaching Yiddish language or culture.
Jan 15, 2018
Pedagogy
Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2018
Jessica Kirzane
A short description of the many Yiddish language and culture summer programs on offer for 2018.
Jan 08, 2018
Pedagogy
Yiddish in Berlin/Berlin in Yiddish
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
| Ekaterina Kuznetsova reflects on the first-ever Yiddish summer program to take place in the German capital (August 14 - September 1st 2017) |
Dec 06, 2017
Pedagogy
From Kansas to Kentucky in a Jewish Literature Classroom: A “Creative Option” for Reflection Papers
Jessica Kirzane
Jessica Kirzane discusses a creative writing prompt for students in a course on American Jewish Literature and shares samples of students’ work.
Nov 19, 2017