Pedagogy

Jes­si­ca Kirzane dis­cuss­es a cre­ative writ­ing prompt for stu­dents in a course on Amer­i­can Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and shares sam­ples of stu­dents’ work.

Nov 19, 2017

Nov 13, 2017

Call­ing all teach­ers! Par­tic­i­pate in our ped­a­gogy poll.

Nov 06, 2017

Klez­Cal­i­for­nia, found­ed in 2003, and locat­ed in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area, devel­oped an ini­tia­tive to bring mate­ri­als about Yid­dish cul­ture to Jew­ish youth in reli­gious schools and day schools. 

Oct 23, 2017

In Novem­ber 2016, the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um launched the beta ver­sion of Expe­ri­enc­ing His­to­ry: Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on the Holo­caust, a pri­ma­ry-source teach­ing tool that aims to bring Jew­ish sources from the Holo­caust to the North Amer­i­can under­grad­u­ate class­room. Emil Keren­ji describes the tool and how it can be used. 

Oct 10, 2017

The third in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Taub’s trans­la­tion of Blume Lem­pel’s sto­ry ​“The Debt.”

Sep 28, 2017

Yid­dish lan­guage instruc­tors share their thoughts about teach­ing Inter­me­di­ate Yiddish. 

Sep 14, 2017

Call­ing all teach­ers! Par­tic­i­pate in our ped­a­gogy poll. 

Sep 14, 2017

This online bib­li­o­graph­i­cal series devot­ed to research resources in Yid­dish Stud­ies focus­es on the Holocaust.

Jun 20, 2017

This online bib­li­o­graph­i­cal series devot­ed to research resources in Yid­dish Stud­ies focus­es on sur­veys of the pub­lish­ing out­put of spe­cif­ic coun­tries or regions. 

Jun 12, 2017