Pedagogy

Dr. Rachel Kranson brought students in a course on Jews and the City to the “Text and Context” lab at the University of Pittsburgh library to print headlines on a working 1890s printing press.

Feb 20, 2024

Suggestions for instructors who might want to teach Shulamis (1881) by Avrom Goldfadn in their Jewish history, culture, or literature classrooms.

Feb 12, 2024

Last spring we published Jon­ah Lubin’s overview and bibliography of “Master Criminal” Urke Nachalnik. Now, he has expanded this research to discuss how Urke Nachalnik was represented in popular Yiddish culture.

Feb 06, 2024

Feb 01, 2024

This platform for primary source materials, syllabi, modules, online courses, and reflections gives instructors of East European history the tools to address paradigmatic changes in the field in their teaching.

Jan 18, 2024

This output-oriented, task-based lesson plan for advanced beginners guides students through a fantasy-based role-playing adventure.

Dec 19, 2023

Examples of project-based learning in the intermediate Yiddish classroom, from the fabulous students of Rivke Margolis’s Intermediate Yiddish Class at the Steiner Program of the Yiddish Book Center, summer 2023.

Dec 12, 2023

As the war in Israel/Palestine continues to unfold, we aim to support our readers, many of whom are teachers and students of Yiddish, as they look for ways to learn about and discuss these events in mame-loshn.

Oct 25, 2023

What more can I do for my country, now so badly in need of support, except for teaching minority languages and Slavic-Jewish literature of Ukraine?

Jun 27, 2023

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.

Jun 19, 2023