Pedagogy

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

Pedagogy

Frameworks for Teaching Yiddish Oral Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors: Fiszel, Sara, Paja

The teach­ing guide is designed for uni­ver­si­ty-lev­el his­to­ry cours­es as a resource for work­ing with oral testimony.

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Place of the Khurbn in Yiddish Language Classes

How and when do our read­ers teach khurbn mate­ri­als in their Yid­dish lan­guage class­es? We’ve assem­bled respons­es to this poll in our loyt di lerers series.

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: The Place of the Khurbn in Yiddish Language Classes

The lat­est in our series in which we poll Yid­dish stud­ies instruc­tors about a top­ic relat­ed to their teach­ing. This time, we want to know whether and how you intro­duce the top­ic of the Holo­caust in your Yid­dish lan­guage instruction.

Pedagogy

Teaching Guide to Jacob Glatstein’s Anti-Fascist Poem “Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout” (trans. Shandler)

Mark I. West offers sug­ges­tions for teach­ing Jacob Glat­stein’s 1943 Anti-Fas­cist chil­dren’s poem.

Pedagogy

Experiencing History: Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

In Novem­ber 2016, the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um launched the beta ver­sion of Expe­ri­enc­ing His­to­ry: Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on the Holo­caust, a pri­ma­ry-source teach­ing tool that aims to bring Jew­ish sources from the Holo­caust to the North Amer­i­can under­grad­u­ate class­room. Emil Keren­ji describes the tool and how it can be used. 

Pedagogy

Resources in Yiddish Studies: The Holocaust

This online bib­li­o­graph­i­cal series devot­ed to research resources in Yid­dish Stud­ies focus­es on the Holocaust.

Pedagogy

לויט די לערערס | Teachers Weigh In: Yiddish in Holocaust Courses?

Instruc­tors share their thoughts on teach­ing with Yid­dish in Holo­caust Stud­ies contexts. 

Pedagogy

Invitation to Participate: Yiddish in Holocaust Education

Do you teach cours­es relat­ed to the Holo­caust? What role does Yid­dish have in those cours­es? Let us know in this survey.

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