Pedagogy

This platform for primary source materials, syllabi, modules, online courses, and reflections gives instructors of East European history the tools to address paradigmatic changes in the field in their teaching.

Jan 18, 2024

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