Pedagogy

A discussion of how Feygi Zylberman, a middle school History and Jewish Studies teacher at a Progressive Jewish community day school in Melbourne, Australia, employs Yiddish in her classroom, with a worksheet to use alongside the divorce scene in the film Hester Street (1975).

Nov 14, 2016

The first in a series of teaching guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s translation of Isaac Meir Dik’s introduction to his 1868 adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).

Oct 25, 2016

This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on digital collections in Yiddish Studies.

Oct 18, 2016

Do you teach using translated texts from Yiddish sources? Tell us about it.

Oct 04, 2016

A note from the new Pedagogy Editor about our plans for the Pedagogy section of In geveb for the coming year.

Sep 11, 2016

This online bibliographical series devoted to research resources in Yiddish Studies focuses on “Meta”-resources – bibliographies, web gateways, online scholarship, indexes, library and archival resources, encyclopedias.

Sep 05, 2016

Yiddish language instructors share their plans for the first day of class.

Aug 23, 2016

Readers weigh in on “How Do You Say ‘Parents’ in Yiddish?,” offering their own vocabulary suggestion and asking further important questions.

Jun 22, 2016

An activity designed to teach archival skills.

Jun 16, 2016

Anna Elena Torres shares her reflections about, and syllabus for, the course “Gender and the Body in Yiddish Literature.”

Jun 02, 2016