Pedagogy

For there to be a Yiddish-speaking community at Oberlin, someone needed to teach the community Yiddish. It seemed that that someone, despite my inexperience and uncertainty, would need to be me.

Mar 18, 2026

Over the past fifteen years, I have purchased over thirty Hasidic games and tested them out with various groups of Yiddish learners to find ones that work most effectively in different contexts and varying levels of classes.

Jan 26, 2026

Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to highlight how Yiddish functioned beyond its traditional literary boundaries.

Nov 17, 2025

Since 2022, the Yiddish Sof-Vokh UK has offered Yiddish speakers the chance to spend a weekend entirely immersed in mame-loshn. Two of the event’s organizers discuss the immersive Yiddish weekend.

Jan 30, 2025

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

In this piece, Sarah Biskowitz and Hannah Mills present the answers to a survey gathering information on Yiddish courses offered at universities across the world.

Jun 14, 2021

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