Pedagogy
Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.
Pedagogy
Lexical Innovation and Pedagogical Challenge in the Yiddish Avant-Garde: Teaching Khalyastre to Advanced Learners
Khalyastre as a pedagogical laboratory for advanced Yiddish instruction.
Apr 21, 2026
Pedagogy
The Yudika Variations: Translating b'Chevrusa
The authors describe an exercise in which they translate and re-translate the same text into different formats.
Mar 30, 2021
Pedagogy
On Literary Translation
Adriana X. Jacobs on her commitment to literary translation.
Nov 12, 2019
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.
Jun 10, 2019
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Erotic Yiddish Poetry
This teaching guide offers suggestions and reflections from several scholars about teaching erotic Yiddish poetry.
Apr 09, 2019
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leyzer Volf's Evigingo (trans. Finkin)
Jordan Finkin offers resources and ideas for teaching this unusual poem.
Mar 12, 2018
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Yoysef Kerler’s “Old Fashioned” and “The Sea” (trans. Evrona)
The second in a series of teaching guides, this one for Maia Evrona’s translation of Yoysef Kerler’s poems “Old Fashioned” and “The Sea” (1979).
Jan 17, 2017