Pedagogy

A con­ver­sa­tion about the rewards and chal­lenges of using Yid­dish with old­er adults.

May 05, 2024

Sarah Biskowitz inter­views Assia Azenkot about Fish­l’s Yid­dish Group.

Mar 31, 2024

This fall, the Taube Depart­ment of Jew­ish Stud­ies at Wro­claw Uni­ver­si­ty is open­ing its doors to inter­na­tion­al stu­dents who don’t know Pol­ish thanks to its Inter­na­tion­al MA Pro­gram in East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Stud­ies, taught entire­ly in English.

Mar 28, 2024

This arti­cle serves as a bio­graph­i­cal and bib­li­o­graph­i­cal ref­er­ence text to intro­duce read­ers to Yankev (Jacob) Pat’s life and career, with a focus on the ear­ly post­war years.

Mar 19, 2024

Dr. Rachel Kran­son brought stu­dents in a course on Jews and the City to the ​“Text and Con­text” lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh library to print head­lines on a work­ing 1890s print­ing press.

Feb 20, 2024

Sug­ges­tions for instruc­tors who might want to teach Shu­lamis (1881) by Avrom Gold­fadn in their Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, or lit­er­a­ture classrooms.

Feb 12, 2024

Last spring we pub­lished Jon­ah Lubin’s overview and bib­li­og­ra­phy of ​“Mas­ter Crim­i­nal” Urke Nachal­nik. Now, he has expand­ed this research to dis­cuss how Urke Nachal­nik was rep­re­sent­ed in pop­u­lar Yid­dish culture.

Feb 06, 2024

Feb 01, 2024

This plat­form for pri­ma­ry source mate­ri­als, syl­labi, mod­ules, online cours­es, and reflec­tions gives instruc­tors of East Euro­pean his­to­ry the tools to address par­a­dig­mat­ic changes in the field in their teaching.

Jan 18, 2024

This out­put-ori­ent­ed, task-based les­son plan for advanced begin­ners guides stu­dents through a fan­ta­sy-based role-play­ing adventure.

Dec 19, 2023