Pedagogy

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.

Jun 06, 2022

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

May 06, 2022

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

Apr 15, 2022

This arti­cle intro­duces and pro­vides a text­book sup­ple­ment on queer fam­i­ly vocabulary.

Apr 05, 2022

Rochelle Sib­ley writes about teach­ing Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture in trans­la­tion at a uni­ver­si­ty in the UK.

Mar 24, 2022

A report from a round­table with instruc­tors of Jew­ish lan­guages on the cur­rent role of crit­i­cal iden­ti­ties in our pedagogies. 

Mar 22, 2022

Mar 08, 2022

This lis­ti­cle pro­vides teach­ers with ideas for texts and music they may want to share with their stu­dents dur­ing the Russ­ian war in Ukraine.

Mar 04, 2022

We want to learn from you about how teach­ers of Yid­dish Stud­ies approach (or avoid) teach­ing about Zion­ism and anti-Zion­ism in their class­es, be it in its his­tor­i­cal or con­tem­po­rary manifestations.

Feb 10, 2022

Yid­dish researchers are train­ing Tran­skribus, a cut­ting-edge dig­i­tal plat­form for the tran­scrip­tion, auto­mat­ic text detec­tion, and enrich­ment of hand­writ­ten archival doc­u­ments, to deci­pher Yid­dish-lan­guage hand­writ­ing, which will facil­i­tate and boost research into hid­den trea­sure troves, rich in Jew­ish cul­tur­al heritage.

Feb 07, 2022