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Class starts Jul 6 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 6 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts June 30 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SUM2026] Beginner III/IV Yiddish (In-person Intersession)

Class starts Jul 7 6:30pm-8:00pm

[SUM2026] Alefbeys Workshop

Class starts Jul 8 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Afterlife: Survivors in the Stories of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman

Wednesday, Aug 5 | 6:00pm

In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers: A Walking Tour

Class starts Jul 9 10:30am-12:00pm

[SUM2026] Deciphering Handwritten Yiddish Documents

Class starts Jul 9 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 9 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Intermediate III Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 12 10:00am-11:30am

[SUM2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 5 10:30am-12:00pm

[SUM2026] Intermediate I Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 12 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SUM2026] The 'Mishpokhe-mayses' of I.L. Peretz

Class starts Jul 5 2:00pm-3:30pm

[SUM2026] Getting Into Yiddish: An Introduction to Yiddish Language and Culture

Class starts Jul 12 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SUM2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 12 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SUM2026] The Yiddish Occult

Class starts July 13 10:00am-11:30am

[SUM2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 7 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SUM2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Intersession)

Thursday, Sep 10 | 1:00pm

Ruth Rubin and the Study of Yiddish Folksong Today

Class starts Sep 17 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish

Class starts Sep 22 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Sep 22 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced II Yiddish

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate I Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate III Yiddish

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Twice-a-week)

Class starts Sep 23 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Wednesday)

Class starts Sep 23 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] The Memoirs of Puah Rakovsky

Class starts Sep 23 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Sep 24 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Thursday)

Thursday, Sep 24 | 1:00pm

Yiddish Scholarship Comes to America: The YIVO Institute at 100

Class starts Sep 24 2:00pm-3:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Sep 28 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Sep 28 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate I Yiddish

Class starts Sep 28 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced III Yiddish

Wednesday, Sep 30 | 1:00pm

Jewish Songs and Dances for Piano: Joseph Achron's 'Children's Suite'

Monday, Oct 5 | 1:00pm

Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built

Class starts Oct 6 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Bodies, Desire, and Sexuality in Eastern European Jewish History

Thursday, Oct 8 | 1:00pm

Modern Jewish Identity in the Age of Empire

Class starts Oct 11 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Advanced I Yiddish

Class starts Oct 11 10:30am-12:00pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate II Yiddish

Class starts Oct 11 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner III Yiddish

Class starts Oct 11 12:00pm-1:30pm

[FALL2026] Pogroms and Jewish Self-Defense in the Russian Empire, 1881-1921

Class starts Oct 11 12:00pm-1:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature and Grammar: The Yiddish Underworld

Sunday, Oct 11 | 1:00pm

Nusakh Vilne Memorial

Class starts Oct 11 2:00pm-3:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced V Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Oct 11 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Sunday)

Class starts Oct 11 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced V Yiddish (Sunday Evening)

Wednesday, Oct 14 | 1:00pm

Yiddish Poetry and Jewish Identity in 1930s America

Thursday, Oct 22 | 7:00pm

An Evening with Alex Weiser and Andrzej Ciepliński: A Celebration of "Tfiles" and its Carnegie Hall Premiere

Class starts Nov 3 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Der gaystiker vidershtand in varshever geto: Emanuel Ringelblum un der oyneg-shabes arkhiv

Thursday, Nov 12 | 7:00pm

Diamonds of the Night

Tuesday, Apr 13 | 7:00pm

Music of the Third Seder: A Yiddish Passover Concert

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