Pedagogy

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

Feb 07, 2023

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

Feb 06, 2023

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.

Jan 25, 2023

Lau­rie Fish­er, a Jew­ish Stud­ies pro­fes­sor who hap­pens to be a stu­dent of Yid­dish, reflects on her expe­ri­ences as some­one who came to learn­ing Yid­dish lat­er in life.

Jan 24, 2023

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.

Jan 18, 2023

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. 

Dec 13, 2022

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

Nov 17, 2022

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.

Nov 15, 2022

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.

Nov 07, 2022

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.”

Oct 19, 2022