Pedagogy

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

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

Progress Report: Reflections of a First-Time Yidish-lerer

A first-time Yiddish teacher reflects on strategies and assignments that allow students to see and appreciate how much they have learned.

Pedagogy

Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners

Saper’s course, “Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners,” grew explicitly out of their personal, political, and artistic commitments and was created for the community they call home: an intergenerational group of artists and activists, mostly queer and trans leftist Jews.

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

Improvisational Performance in the Language Classroom: An Example from a Beginner’s Yiddish Class

Jessica Kirzane uses a Forverts advice column to help her students practice lib hobn and other periphrastic verb structures and encourages teachers to borrow the exercise in their own classrooms.

Pedagogy

Yiddish Film Activities for the Language Classroom: Teaching with Mamele

Using a short scene from the 1938 film Mamele (dir. Joseph Green, Konrad Tom), Rebecca Margolis demonstrates how short excerpts of Yiddish films can be used to address specific aspects of Yiddish dialect, grammar and idiom, and translation in the Yiddish language classroom.

Pedagogy

Yiddish in Berlin/Berlin in Yiddish

Ekaterina Kuznetsova reflects on the first-ever Yiddish summer program to take place in the German capital (August 14 - September 1st 2017)
Pedagogy

Tam – Tastes of Yiddish Culture for Kids & Teens

KlezCalifornia, founded in 2003, and located in the San Francisco Bay Area, developed an initiative to bring materials about Yiddish culture to Jewish youth in religious schools and day schools.

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