Pedagogy

The aim of this com­pendi­um is to make Yid­dish orig­i­nals for the sto­ries in Found Trea­sures eas­i­ly avail­able and to pre­serve some of the mate­ri­al­i­ty of the editor’s task of col­lect­ing these short stories.

Jun 19, 2023

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

As a final project in a course on ​“Read­ing Yid­dish” at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, Gio­van­na Truong took on the chal­lenge of trans­lat­ing Aaron Meisel’s ​“The Death of Ted Dennis.”

Oct 19, 2022

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

The authors describe an exer­cise in which they trans­late and re-trans­late the same text into dif­fer­ent formats.

Mar 30, 2021

Lawrence Rosen­wald con­sid­ers the uses and mean­ings of lit­er­al trans­la­tion in the classroom.

Nov 05, 2019

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

Instruc­tors share their thoughts on teach­ing Yid­dish texts in translation. 

Nov 28, 2016

The first in a series of teach­ing guides, this one for Eli Rosenblatt’s trans­la­tion of Isaac Meir Dik’s intro­duc­tion to his 1868 adap­ta­tion of Har­ri­et Beech­er Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cab­in (1852).

Oct 25, 2016

Do you teach using trans­lat­ed texts from Yid­dish sources? Tell us about it. 

Oct 04, 2016