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Teaching Guide to In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union
Sasha Senderovich and Harriet Murav
The stories gathered in In the Shadow of the Holocaust offer distinctive vantage points on how people continue to live after a catastrophe. We suggest some avenues for class discussion that offer a framework for approaching postwar Soviet Jewish writing as literature of persistence rather than of catastrophe alone.
Feb 23, 2026
Pedagogy
Frameworks for Teaching Yiddish Oral Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors: Fiszel, Sara, Paja
Joanna Spyra
The teaching guide is designed for university-level history courses as a resource for working with oral testimony.
May 28, 2025
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leon Kobrin's "Blessed is the True Judge"
Jessica Kirzane
This teaching guide for Leon Kobrin's short story "Blessed is the True Judge" offers brainstorming ideas, discussion questions, and essay prompts for high school and college class rooms.
Oct 28, 2021
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York trans. Anita Norich
Lizy Mostowski
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
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Vaybertaytsh Episode 15: Queer in Yiddish
Michal Novak
This teaching guide offers discussion questions and classroom activities to use alongside an episode of the feminist Yiddish podcast Vaybertaytsh.
Mar 02, 2020
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Jacob Glatstein’s Anti-Fascist Poem “Goblin Nogood Has Run Out of Clout” (trans. Shandler)
Mark I. West
Mark I. West offers suggestions for teaching Jacob Glatstein's 1943 Anti-Fascist children's poem.
Jun 10, 2019
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide to Erotic Yiddish Poetry
Jessica Kirzane
This teaching guide offers suggestions and reflections from several scholars about teaching erotic Yiddish poetry.
Apr 09, 2019
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Leyzer Volf's Evigingo (trans. Finkin)
Jordan Finkin
Jordan Finkin offers resources and ideas for teaching this unusual poem.
Mar 12, 2018
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Blume Lempel's "The Debt" (trans Cassedy and Taub)
Jennifer Kronovet
The third in a series of teaching guides, this one for Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Taub's translation of Blume Lempel's story "The Debt."
Sep 28, 2017
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Yoysef Kerler’s “Old Fashioned” and “The Sea” (trans. Evrona)
Jessica Kirzane
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
Pedagogy
Teaching Guide for Dik's "Slavery or Serfdom" (trans. Rosenblatt)
Jessica Kirzane
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