Pedagogy

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

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.

Pedagogy

Teaching Guide to Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York trans. Anita Norich

A teach­ing guide for Kadya Molodovsky’s A Jew­ish Refugee in New York (trans. Ani­ta Norich) in the con­text of refugee literatures.

Pedagogy

The Yudika Variations: Translating b'Chevrusa

The authors describe an exer­cise in which they trans­late and re-trans­late the same text into dif­fer­ent formats.

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