Pedagogy

From 1956 – 1967, Eli Wiesel wrote for the Forverts, pub­lish­ing more than 1,000 arti­cles under his giv­en name, Eliez­er Wiesel, and about two dozen install­ments of a lit­er­ary col­umn under a pseu­do­nym, Elisha Karmeli. Aman­da Miryem-Khaye Seigel has com­piled a list of these arti­cles to aid researchers. 

Mar 23, 2023

Sarah Biskowitz speaks with Lasha Shaku­lashvili about Yid­dish in the South Cau­cusus region and his new role teach­ing Yid­dish at at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbil­isi State Uni­ver­si­ty (TSU).

Feb 20, 2023

A Yid­dish instruc­tor cre­at­ed a Google cal­en­dar with dates that are impor­tant for Yid­dish lan­guage and lit­er­a­ture and shares thoughts about how it can be use­ful for teaching.

Feb 14, 2023

In this arti­cle Olive Ben­i­to-Myles and Nao­mi Piper-Pell reflect on their expe­ri­ence attend­ing the con­fer­ence ​“Di froyen” at the Yid­dish Book Center.

Feb 09, 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

Check out In geve­b’s annu­al com­pi­la­tion of Yid­dish-relat­ed lan­guage pro­grams and cul­tur­al events this summer.

Feb 06, 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

Lau­rie Fish­er, a Jew­ish Stud­ies pro­fes­sor who hap­pens to be a stu­dent of Yid­dish, reflects on her expe­ri­ences as some­one who came to learn­ing Yid­dish lat­er in life.

Jan 24, 2023

At the 2022 Asso­ci­a­tion for Slav­ic, East Euro­pean, and Eurasian Stud­ies (ASEEES) con­fer­ence this fall, a group of Yid­dish instruc­tors came togeth­er to dis­cuss the par­tic­u­lar chal­lenges of teach­ing Yid­dish lan­guage dur­ing the war in Ukraine.

Jan 18, 2023

Miri­am Isaacs and She­va Zuck­er dis­cuss Zuk­er’s project, The Gold­en Pea­cock: The Voice of the Yid­dish Writer Bilin­gual, a book and record­ing fea­tur­ing twelve Yid­dish writ­ers read­ing from their poet­ry and prose, accom­pa­nied by an Eng­lish trans­la­tion of each work. 

Dec 13, 2022