Winter Intensive Intermediate II Yiddish

Class starts Jan 5 6:00pm-7:30pm

Tuition: $325
YIVO members: $250**
Students: $150 (Must register with valid university email address)

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Instructor: Sheva Zucker

Who should take this course?
This course is for students who have previously taken two years of Yiddish.

Winter Intensive Intermediate II is appropriate, for example, for students who were in the Giml or Daled levels in the 2020 Summer Program.

As YIVO is renaming several of our Yiddish levels, students who took Advanced Beginner or Intermediate Yiddish in Fall 2020 should enroll in Winter Intensive Beginner III. Students who took Advanced Intermediate Yiddish in Fall 2020 should enroll in Winter Intensive Intermediate I.

What topics will this class cover?
This course will be a combination of grammar and literature. Students will broaden their knowledge of Yiddish grammar through listening, reading, speaking and writing on a variety of topics. In addition, we will read chapters from Meylekh Ravitsh’s Dos mayse-bukh fun mayn lebn, a wonderful autobiographical account by a master storyteller that highlights life in a small Galician shtetl as well as the pre-WWII Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw.

Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume II by Sheva Zucker. If you do not yet own a copy (any edition is fine), purchase the textbook here. The class will begin in the later chapters.

Questions? Read our 2021 Winter Yiddish Classes FAQ.

Sheva Zucker has taught YIVO’s Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture for over two decades. She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I and II, which are used widely in university and adult classes around the world. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish and Yiddish literature on five continents and at major universities, including Columbia, New York University, Duke, Bar-Ilan, and Russian State Humanities University. From 2005 to 2020 she served as the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its all-Yiddish publication Afn Shvel. Her research and translation work focus mainly on women in Yiddish literature.

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