Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

Notes on Teaching Yiddish in Berlin

I’ve always dreamed of teach­ing Yid­dish in per­son in Berlin. When the exhaust­ing lock­down in Berlin final­ly came to an end, I start­ed to work on real­iz­ing my dream.

Pedagogy

Invitation to Participate: Learning Yiddish on Duolingo

An invi­ta­tion for stu­dents learn­ing Yid­dish with Duolin­go to fill out a sur­vey about their moti­va­tions and expe­ri­ence with the learn­ing software.

Pedagogy

Chaim Grade: Facts of a Life

This essay offers the first fruits of labo­ri­ous research in Grade’s papers, which were were joint­ly acquired by the Nation­al Library of Israel and YIVO Insti­tute for Jew­ish Research in New York in 2013.

Pedagogy

Teaching and Producing Original Yiddish Radio

Sha­har Fineberg describes the chal­lenges and out­comes of host­ing a radio work­shop at a Yid­dish sum­mer program.

Pedagogy

Labzik Assembled! Bringing Radical 1930s Yiddish Children’s Literature to the Virtual Stage

Cameron Bern­stein inter­views direc­tor Jake Krakovsky about his bilin­gual Yid­dish-Eng­lish pup­pet film Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup” based on short sto­ries by Chaver Paver.

Pedagogy

Teaching Guide for Leon Kobrin's "Blessed is the True Judge"

This teach­ing guide for Leon Kobrin’s short sto­ry Blessed is the True Judge” offers brain­storm­ing ideas, dis­cus­sion ques­tions, and essay prompts for high school and col­lege class rooms. 

Pedagogy

Teaching Race Through Yiddish Literature in Israel

In this piece Han­nah Pollin-Galay reflects on the pos­si­bil­i­ties and lim­i­ta­tions of teach­ing race through Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture at an Israeli university.

Pedagogy

Viver com Yiddish/Lebn far yidish: Song and Story Workshops for Children in a Brazilian School

In this piece Sonia Kramer and Aline Sil­veira describe their work with the Rio-de-Janeiro-based group Viv­er com Yid­dish which runs suc­cess­ful Yid­dish lan­guage and cul­ture work­shops for children.

Pedagogy

Roundup of Universities Teaching Yiddish Across the World

In this piece, Sarah Biskowitz and Han­nah Mills present the answers to a sur­vey gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion on Yid­dish cours­es offered at uni­ver­si­ties across the world.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During the Pandemic

Despite the pan­dem­ic, Yid­dish cul­ture flour­ished online. Tanya Yakovl­e­va describes her role as an online Yid­dish teacher dur­ing this time.

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