Pedagogy

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

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

Apr 09, 2019