“beginning students”

Proste Yiddish is a podcast especially created for Yiddish learners which aims to be comprehensible for those in their first few years of learning.

Feb 16, 2026

This output-oriented, task-based lesson plan for advanced beginners guides students through a fantasy-based role-playing adventure.

Dec 19, 2023

A first-time Yiddish teacher reflects on strategies and assignments that allow students to see and appreciate how much they have learned.

Feb 07, 2023

Saper's course, “Antifascist Yiddish for Beginners,” grew explicitly out of their personal, political, and artistic commitments and was created for the community they call home: an intergenerational group of artists and activists, mostly queer and trans leftist Jews.

Jan 25, 2023

I’ve always dreamed of teaching Yiddish in person in Berlin. When the exhausting lockdown in Berlin finally came to an end, I started to work on realizing my dream.

Jan 21, 2022

Meyer Weinshel and Asya Vaisman Schulman speak about developing Vaisman Schulman's new Yiddish textbook, In eynem, coming from the Yiddish Book Center this summer.

Jun 16, 2020

Jessica Kirzane uses a Forverts advice column to help her students practice lib hobn and other periphrastic verb structures and encourages teachers to borrow the exercise in their own classrooms.

Mar 26, 2020

Apr 28, 2019

Using a short scene from the 1938 film Mamele (dir. Joseph Green, Konrad Tom), Rebecca Margolis demonstrates how short excerpts of Yiddish films can be used to address specific aspects of Yiddish dialect, grammar and idiom, and translation in the Yiddish language classroom. 

Sep 24, 2018

Dec 06, 2017

Calling all teachers! Participate in our pedagogy poll.

Nov 06, 2017

KlezCalifornia, founded in 2003, and located in the San Francisco Bay Area, developed an initiative to bring materials about Yiddish culture to Jewish youth in religious schools and day schools. 

Oct 23, 2017

The fourth in a series of reflections on Yiddish pedagogy in the digital age. Here, Paula Teitlebaum discusses the way that digital technology has shaped her teaching.

Apr 18, 2017

Erin Faigin discusses the role of Yiddish language instruction in the curriculum of the Sholem Community, a supplemental secular Jewish school in Marina Del Ray, California. 

Mar 20, 2017

A note from the new Pedagogy Editor about our plans for the Pedagogy section of In geveb for the coming year. 

Sep 11, 2016

In geveb is sharing a series of games for use in Yiddish language classes.

Nov 01, 2015

The second installment of our pedagogy forum, presenting the opinions and experiences of Yiddish language teachers on the question of using the textbook College Yiddish. 

Sep 27, 2015

After-school enrichment classes for children can be deadly to teach. Creative performance is one way to keep students engaged and learning. 

Aug 13, 2015

In an effort to pool the wisdom and questions acquired from our work in the classroom, In geveb regularly polls Yiddish language instructors on topics related to Yiddish pedagogy. In this installment: what textbook do you use with beginning students? 

Aug 10, 2015