Pedagogy

Ri Turn­er shares the mate­ri­als from a ses­sion for inter­me­di­ate stu­dents over Zoon on astron­o­my reportage in the Yid­dish press, which can serve as an exam­ple of how to iden­ti­fy dig­i­tized his­tor­i­cal Yid­dish mate­ri­als around a par­tic­u­lar theme, repack­age them in a for­mat that is acces­si­ble to inter­me­di­ate stu­dents, and use them in an online teach­ing con­text to gen­er­ate a con­ver­sa­tion that is both his­tor­i­cal­ly root­ed and con­tem­porar­i­ly relevant.

Jun 06, 2022

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