Teaching Guide to Vaybertaytsh Episode 15: Queer in Yiddish

Vay­ber­taytsh, a fem­i­nist pod­cast in Yid­dish, high­lights the sto­ries and works of women and queer folk, and dis­cuss­es fem­i­nist issues, all in Yiddish. 

This teach­ing guide grew out of the knowl­edge that a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of the lis­ten­er­ship for the pod­cast are Yid­dish lan­guage learn­ers who use the pod­cast as a rein­force­ment for their learn­ing. This guide offers dis­cus­sion ques­tions and exten­sion activ­i­ties for indi­vid­u­als and Yid­dish class­es who are using the pod­cast to sup­ple­ment their lan­guage study.

This teach­ing guide is also part of a larg­er series designed to make In geve­b’s work acces­si­ble for use by edu­ca­tors in a vari­ety of set­tings. We’d like your feed­back to make these guides as use­ful as pos­si­ble. Please write to pedagogy@​ingeveb.​org to tell us what you found help­ful, what need­ed clar­i­fi­ca­tion, what you would like to see more or less of, and what texts or top­ics you would like us to pro­duce guides for next. 

Recent­ly, In geveb and Vay­ber­taytsh began work­ing togeth­er for­mal­ly. In geveb serves as a finan­cial con­duit for Vay­ber­taytsh (when you donate to Vay­ber­taytsh your mon­ey is held by In geveb in a sep­a­rate, ded­i­cat­ed fund for Vay­ber­taytsh), and we are eager to sup­port and con­tribute to one anoth­er’s work in oth­er ways as well. This teach­ing guide is evi­dence of the strong rela­tion­ship between these two orga­ni­za­tions and our shared goals.

If you are inter­est­ed in cre­at­ing a teach­ing guide for anoth­er episode of Vay­ber­taytsh or for mate­ri­als on In geveb, or if you are already teach­ing with mate­ri­als on our site and have ideas to share, please also write to pedagogy@​ingeveb.​org.