Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

Compendium to Found Treasures

The aim of this com­pendi­um is to make Yid­dish orig­i­nals for the sto­ries in Found Trea­sures eas­i­ly avail­able and to pre­serve some of the mate­ri­al­i­ty of the editor’s task of col­lect­ing these short stories.

Pedagogy

Yiddish is back in Mokum

Yid­dish is once again being taught at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam after an eight-year hiatus.

Pedagogy

Reconstructing the Bibliography of a "Master Criminal"

Despite the pop­u­lar­i­ty of Urke Nachal­nik’s writ­ings in inter­war Poland, bib­li­o­graph­ic resources on the fig­ure have been scant, until now.

Pedagogy

Elie Wiesel at the Forverts: A Bibliography

From 1956 – 1967, Eli Wiesel wrote for the Forverts, pub­lish­ing more than 1,000 arti­cles under his giv­en name, Eliez­er Wiesel, and about two dozen install­ments of a lit­er­ary col­umn under a pseu­do­nym, Elisha Karmeli. Aman­da Miryem-Khaye Seigel has com­piled a list of these arti­cles to aid researchers. 

Pedagogy

Yiddish in Georgia

Sarah Biskowitz speaks with Lasha Shaku­lashvili about Yid­dish in the South Cau­cusus region and his new role teach­ing Yid­dish at at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbil­isi State Uni­ver­si­ty (TSU).

Pedagogy

A Google Calendar for Yiddish Teachers / אַ גוגל־קאַלענדאַר פֿאַר לערערס פֿון ייִדיש

A Yid­dish instruc­tor cre­at­ed a Google cal­en­dar with dates that are impor­tant for Yid­dish lan­guage and lit­er­a­ture and shares thoughts about how it can be use­ful for teaching.

Pedagogy

Di froyen”: Two Students’ Experiences

In this arti­cle Olive Ben­i­to-Myles and Nao­mi Piper-Pell reflect on their expe­ri­ence attend­ing the con­fer­ence Di froyen” at the Yid­dish Book Center.

Pedagogy

Progress Report: Reflections of a First-Time Yidish-lerer

A first-time Yid­dish teacher reflects on strate­gies and assign­ments that allow stu­dents to see and appre­ci­ate how much they have learned.

Pedagogy

Yiddish in ale lender! Yiddish Summer Programs Roundup 2023

Check out In geve­b’s annu­al com­pi­la­tion of Yid­dish-relat­ed lan­guage pro­grams and cul­tur­al events this summer.

Pedagogy

Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners

Saper’s course, Antifas­cist Yid­dish for Begin­ners,” grew explic­it­ly out of their per­son­al, polit­i­cal, and artis­tic com­mit­ments and was cre­at­ed for the com­mu­ni­ty they call home: an inter­gen­er­a­tional group of artists and activists, most­ly queer and trans left­ist Jews.

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