Pedagogy

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

Dec 19, 2023

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

Feb 07, 2023

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.

Jan 25, 2023

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

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.

Mar 26, 2020

Apr 28, 2019

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.

Sep 24, 2018

Dec 06, 2017

Calling all teachers! Participate in our pedagogy poll.

Nov 06, 2017

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.

Oct 23, 2017