Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

Resources for Teaching about Ukraine

This lis­ti­cle pro­vides teach­ers with ideas for texts and music they may want to share with their stu­dents dur­ing the Russ­ian war in Ukraine.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During the War

On Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022, Russ­ian troops began bomb­ing Yakovl­e­va’s Ukrain­ian, Russ­ian-speak­ing home­town, Kharkiv. Nev­er­the­less, she con­tin­ued teach­ing Yid­dish in Mor­beg­no, Italy.

Pedagogy

A Conversation at ASEEES: Teaching Yiddish during the War in Ukraine

At the 2022 Asso­ci­a­tion for Slav­ic, East Euro­pean, and Eurasian Stud­ies (ASEEES) con­fer­ence this fall, a group of Yid­dish instruc­tors came togeth­er to dis­cuss the par­tic­u­lar chal­lenges of teach­ing Yid­dish lan­guage dur­ing the war in Ukraine.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During Conferences

What more can I do for my coun­try, now so bad­ly in need of sup­port, except for teach­ing minor­i­ty lan­guages and Slav­ic-Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture of Ukraine?

Pedagogy

REESOURCES: Rethinking Eastern Europe - Revolutionizing the Field with Primary Sources

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.

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