Pedagogy

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

Pedagogy

Fishl's Yiddish Group: An Interview with Assia Azenkot

Sarah Biskowitz inter­views Assia Azenkot about Fish­l’s Yid­dish Group.

Pedagogy

“There is always more to explore here”: A New International MA Program in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław – Taught in English

This fall, the Taube Depart­ment of Jew­ish Stud­ies at Wro­claw Uni­ver­si­ty is open­ing its doors to inter­na­tion­al stu­dents who don’t know Pol­ish thanks to its Inter­na­tion­al MA Pro­gram in East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Stud­ies, taught entire­ly in English.

Pedagogy

Writings of Destruction and Reconstruction in the Polish-Jewish Diaspora: The Case of Yankev (Jacob) Pat, Yiddish Author, Educator and Activist

This arti­cle serves as a bio­graph­i­cal and bib­li­o­graph­i­cal ref­er­ence text to intro­duce read­ers to Yankev (Jacob) Pat’s life and career, with a focus on the ear­ly post­war years.

Pedagogy

Making Headlines at the University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Rachel Kran­son brought stu­dents in a course on Jews and the City to the Text and Con­text” lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh library to print head­lines on a work­ing 1890s print­ing press.

Pedagogy

Shulamis from the Stage to the Classroom

Sug­ges­tions for instruc­tors who might want to teach Shu­lamis (1881) by Avrom Gold­fadn in their Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, or lit­er­a­ture classrooms.

Pedagogy

Tsugob: Urke Nachalnik on the Yiddish Stage

Last spring we pub­lished Jon­ah Lubin’s overview and bib­li­og­ra­phy of Mas­ter Crim­i­nal” Urke Nachal­nik. Now, he has expand­ed this research to dis­cuss how Urke Nachal­nik was rep­re­sent­ed in pop­u­lar Yid­dish culture.

Pedagogy

REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe - Revolutionizing the Field with Primary Sources

This plat­form for pri­ma­ry source mate­ri­als, syl­labi, mod­ules, online cours­es, and reflec­tions gives instruc­tors of East Euro­pean his­to­ry the tools to address par­a­dig­mat­ic changes in the field in their teaching.

Pedagogy

Lomir shpiln! Dungeons, Dragons, and Separable Prefixes

This out­put-ori­ent­ed, task-based les­son plan for advanced begin­ners guides stu­dents through a fan­ta­sy-based role-play­ing adventure.

Pedagogy

Yiddish Learning by New Learners: Two Zines and Two Games Student Projects from the Steiner Program’s Intermediate Class

Exam­ples of project-based learn­ing in the inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish class­room, from the fab­u­lous stu­dents of Rivke Mar­golis’s Inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish Class at the Stein­er Pro­gram of the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter, sum­mer 2023.

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