Calendar of Classes
[SPR2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Tuesday)
This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] 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.
[SPR2026] Intermediate II Yiddish
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] 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 Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Wednesday)
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.
[SPR2026] A Walk through College Yiddish
Following Uriel Weinreich’s classic textbook College Yiddish, Dovid Braun offers a robust overview of the building blocks of Yiddish words and sentences.
[SPR2026] 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.
[SPR2026] Intermediate III Yiddish
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Thursday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Thursday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity
This mini-course from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews examines how Jewish communities in Eastern Europe used education to imagine radically different futures.
[SPR2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday Morning)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] 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.
[SPR2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Monday)
This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (In-person)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Beginner III/IV Yiddish (In-person Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish, Beginner IV Yiddish, or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Intermediate I Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Getting Into Yiddish: An Introduction to Yiddish Language and Culture
Michael Wex offers an accessible introduction to the Yiddish language, focusing on its historical evolution and its distinctly Jewish character.
[SUM2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Alefbeys Workshop
Moishele Alfonso prepares students to start learning Yiddish with an introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, and pronunciation.
[SUM2026] Afterlife: Survivors in the Stories of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman
Intended for Yiddish students at the upper intermediate level and above, this course will consider the post-Holocaust Yiddish writings of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman.
[SUM2026] Deciphering Handwritten Yiddish Documents
Eliezer Niborski teaches the skills necessary to decipher handwritten Yiddish documents from diverse times and places.
[SUM2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Intermediate III Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] The Mishpokhe Mayses of I.L. Peretz
Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz guides students through I.L. Peretz’s classic Yiddish stories about family life.
[SUM2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.
[SUM2026] The Yiddish Occult
Samuel Glauber explores how Yiddish-speaking Jews have engaged with occult beliefs and practices, including séances, divination, and the investigation of hidden realities.
[SUM2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Intersession)
This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.