Calendar of Classes
[FALL2024] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Intermediate I Yiddish
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday Morning)
This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[FALL2024] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)
This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[FALL2024] Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: What is Modern about the Yiddish Classics?
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Mothers, Revolutionaries, and Workers: Women during the Great Transformation of Eastern European Jewish Society
Explore women’s experiences at the turn of the twentieth century, a transformative period in modern Eastern European Jewish history that included industrialization, mass migrations, and the rise of nationalisms.
[FALL2024] Advanced I Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Intermediate II Yiddish (Sunday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Advanced I Yiddish (Sunday Evening)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner I Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[FALL2024] Intermediate III Yiddish (Monday Morning)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Intermediate IV Yiddish
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Intermediate III Yiddish (Monday Afternoon)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Intermediate II Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Advanced II Yiddish
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner IV Yiddish
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner Reading Yiddish
This weekly reading class covers grammar and how to read Yiddish texts with the help of a dictionary. It is for students new to Yiddish, especially those interested in obtaining reading proficiency for academic or archival research.
[FALL2024] Intermediate II Yiddish (Tuesday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner III Yiddish (Tuesday)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.
[FALL2024] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Autobiographical Writing in Yiddish
This twice-weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intensive Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[FALL2024] Readings in Yiddish Prose
Read, listen to, and talk about short stories, essays, journalistic writing, folklore, and more from a literary and linguistic point of view.
[FALL2024] Getting From Oy To Vey: Yiddish as an Expression of Traditional Jewish Life and Learning
Michael Wex leads an in-depth analysis of Yiddish, revealing how Jewish texts and non-Jewish concepts have been incorporated into the language.
[FALL2024] Beginner IV Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.