Pedagogy

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

May 28, 2025

Jul 01, 2024

This teach­ing guide for Leon Kobrin’s short sto­ry ​“Blessed is the True Judge” offers brain­storm­ing ideas, dis­cus­sion ques­tions, and essay prompts for high school and col­lege class rooms. 

Oct 28, 2021

A teach­ing guide for Kadya Molodovsky’s A Jew­ish Refugee in New York (trans. Ani­ta Norich) in the con­text of refugee literatures.

Apr 05, 2021

Dec 21, 2020

This teach­ing guide offers dis­cus­sion ques­tions and class­room activ­i­ties to use along­side an episode of the fem­i­nist Yid­dish pod­cast Vay­ber­taytsh.

Mar 02, 2020

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

Jun 10, 2019

This teach­ing guide offers sug­ges­tions and reflec­tions from sev­er­al schol­ars about teach­ing erot­ic Yid­dish poetry.

Apr 09, 2019

Jor­dan Finkin offers resources and ideas for teach­ing this unusu­al poem. 

Mar 12, 2018

The third in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Ellen Cassedy and Yer­miyahu Taub’s trans­la­tion of Blume Lem­pel’s sto­ry ​“The Debt.”

Sep 28, 2017