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