Pedagogy

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

Pedagogy

A Conversation at ASEEES: Teaching Yiddish during the War in Ukraine

At the 2022 Asso­ci­a­tion for Slav­ic, East Euro­pean, and Eurasian Stud­ies (ASEEES) con­fer­ence this fall, a group of Yid­dish instruc­tors came togeth­er to dis­cuss the par­tic­u­lar chal­lenges of teach­ing Yid­dish lan­guage dur­ing the war in Ukraine.

Pedagogy

The Voices of Yiddish Writers: A Bilingual Conversation on the new Bilingual Edition of Sheva Zucker's Collection of Printed and Recorded Yiddish Writing, The Golden Peacock

Miri­am Isaacs and She­va Zuck­er dis­cuss Zuk­er’s project, The Gold­en Pea­cock: The Voice of the Yid­dish Writer Bilin­gual, a book and record­ing fea­tur­ing twelve Yid­dish writ­ers read­ing from their poet­ry and prose, accom­pa­nied by an Eng­lish trans­la­tion of each work. 

Pedagogy

The Golden Peacock and the Green Owl: Analyzing Yiddish Language Learners’ Experiences with Duolingo

This arti­cle sum­ma­rizes the find­ings of a poll of three-hun­dred stu­dents who study Yid­dish with Duolingo.

Pedagogy

Let's not wait!: Introducing preschoolers to Yiddish through Leah Hoffman's Alefbeys

In this piece Beth Dwoskin explains how Leah Hoff­man’s play about the Yid­dish alpha­bet can be adapt­ed for chil­dren’s class­es today. She presents her Eng­lish trans­la­tion of the play along­side a record­ing of the alef­beys song in English.

Pedagogy

Illustrating Ya’akov Fichmann’s Shabes in vald

In this piece Gio­van­na Truong dis­cuss­es her cre­ative process of illus­trat­ing Ya’akov Fich­man­n’s short sto­ry Shabes in vald for a final assign­ment in an inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish lan­guage class.

Pedagogy

Translating a Text on Racist Violence as a Yiddish Student

As a final project in a course on Read­ing Yid­dish” at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, Gio­van­na Truong took on the chal­lenge of trans­lat­ing Aaron Meisel’s The Death of Ted Dennis.”

Pedagogy

Final Projects

These projects demon­strate not only how clever and cre­ative stu­dents can be, but also the vari­ety of ways that stu­dents can express and dis­play their thought and learning.

Pedagogy

The Comet at the End of the World: An Online, Immersive, Conversational Lesson Plan about “Current Events” Using Digitized Yiddish Press Materials

Ri Turn­er shares the mate­ri­als from a ses­sion for inter­me­di­ate stu­dents over Zoon on astron­o­my reportage in the Yid­dish press, which can serve as an exam­ple of how to iden­ti­fy dig­i­tized his­tor­i­cal Yid­dish mate­ri­als around a par­tic­u­lar theme, repack­age them in a for­mat that is acces­si­ble to inter­me­di­ate stu­dents, and use them in an online teach­ing con­text to gen­er­ate a con­ver­sa­tion that is both his­tor­i­cal­ly root­ed and con­tem­porar­i­ly relevant.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During the War

On Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022, Russ­ian troops began bomb­ing Yakovl­e­va’s Ukrain­ian, Russ­ian-speak­ing home­town, Kharkiv. Nev­er­the­less, she con­tin­ued teach­ing Yid­dish in Mor­beg­no, Italy.

Pedagogy

Calling all Yiddish Studies Instructors: Un-Essays and Creative Projects

If you are an instruc­tor of Yid­dish Stud­ies who has assigned unes­say projects, we want to hear from you.

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