Pedagogy

Rochelle Sibley writes about teaching Yiddish literature in translation at a university in the UK.

Mar 24, 2022

A report from a roundtable with instructors of Jewish languages on the current role of critical identities in our pedagogies.

Mar 22, 2022

Mar 08, 2022

This listicle provides teachers with ideas for texts and music they may want to share with their students during the Russian war in Ukraine.

Mar 04, 2022

We want to learn from you about how teachers of Yiddish Studies approach (or avoid) teaching about Zionism and anti-Zionism in their classes, be it in its historical or contemporary manifestations.

Feb 10, 2022

Yiddish researchers are training Transkribus, a cutting-edge digital platform for the transcription, automatic text detection, and enrichment of handwritten archival documents, to decipher Yiddish-language handwriting, which will facilitate and boost research into hidden treasure troves, rich in Jewish cultural heritage.

Feb 07, 2022

In this essay Natasha Lipman describes her journey of studying Yiddish while living with chronic illness.

Feb 04, 2022

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.

Jan 21, 2022

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

Jan 18, 2022

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.

Dec 15, 2021