Pedagogy

On Sun­day, Octo­ber 29^th, Dra­Cor released its Yid­dish cor­pus (YiDra­Cor), mak­ing these Yid­dish plays high­ly machine read­able and ready out-of-the-box for com­pu­ta­tion­al lit­er­ary study.

Oct 22, 2024

Sug­ges­tions for instruc­tors who might want to teach Shu­lamis (1881) by Avrom Gold­fadn in their Jew­ish his­to­ry, cul­ture, or lit­er­a­ture classrooms.

Feb 12, 2024

Last spring we pub­lished Jon­ah Lubin’s overview and bib­li­og­ra­phy of ​“Mas­ter Crim­i­nal” Urke Nachal­nik. Now, he has expand­ed this research to dis­cuss how Urke Nachal­nik was rep­re­sent­ed in pop­u­lar Yid­dish culture.

Feb 06, 2024

In this piece Beth Dwoskin explains how Leah Hoff­man’s play about the Yid­dish alpha­bet can be adapt­ed for chil­dren’s class­es today. She presents her Eng­lish trans­la­tion of the play along­side a record­ing of the alef­beys song in English.

Nov 15, 2022

Cameron Bern­stein inter­views direc­tor Jake Krakovsky about his bilin­gual Yid­dish-Eng­lish pup­pet film ​“Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup” based on short sto­ries by Chaver Paver.

Nov 04, 2021