Pedagogy
Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.
Pedagogy
Frameworks for Teaching Yiddish Oral Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors: Fiszel, Sara, Paja
The teaching guide is designed for university-level history courses as a resource for working with oral testimony.
May 28, 2025
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leon Kobrin's "Blessed is the True Judge"
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
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York trans. Anita Norich
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
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Vaybertaytsh Episode 15: Queer in Yiddish
This teaching guide offers discussion questions and classroom activities to use alongside an episode of the feminist Yiddish podcast Vaybertaytsh.
Mar 02, 2020
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 Blume Lempel's "The Debt" (trans Cassedy and Taub)
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