Pedagogy

In August 2025 YIVO opened its new Learning and Media Center, a learning lab for visiting student and adult groups. This new initiative transforms YIVO’s space into a more accessible museum, as befits its desire for deeper public engagement.

Jan 21, 2026

Occupations Past and Present is a visual literacy curriculum drawing on Mayer Kirshenblatt’s images of eastern European Jewish life to teach general (not only Jewish) grade school audiences how to relate to, ask questions of, and learn from images.

Dec 01, 2025

Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to highlight how Yiddish functioned beyond its traditional literary boundaries.

Nov 17, 2025

A bilingual blog post on how the debate over the orthography of the Yiddish language is reflected in a textbook published by the Yidisher Kultur-Farband (henceforth IKUF) in Buenos Aires in 1958 and in several issues of Shul-Heftn, published by the same organization in the 1950s.

Jun 18, 2025

The teaching guide is designed for university-level history courses as a resource for working with oral testimony.

May 28, 2025

The Lerer Roskes Archive is a trove of resources for research and pedagogy in Yiddish Studies and reflects Roskies’s achievements and influence.

Apr 09, 2025

Looking to improve your Yiddish this summer? We’ve got you covered.

Feb 06, 2025

Since 2022, the Yiddish Sof-Vokh UK has offered Yiddish speakers the chance to spend a weekend entirely immersed in mame-loshn. Two of the event’s organizers discuss the immersive Yiddish weekend.

Jan 30, 2025

A working document of ideas, understandings, and tips.

Dec 16, 2024

My background in linguistics has been a tremendous boon to me as a learner.

Nov 18, 2024