Intermediate II Yiddish

This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted mostly in Yiddish, with some English used when necessary.

Instructor: Dovid Braun

Who should take this course?
This course is for students who completed Intermediate I Yiddish in spring 2021. It is also appropriate for those enrolled in Beys in the 2021 Summer Program who have mastered the Beys material.

What topics will this class cover?
Using College Yiddish as a guide, this class will progress lesson by lesson through various tenses, structures of sentences, word building strategies, grammatical points, and vocabulary explorations. The goal will be an expansion of Yiddish vocabulary and of Yiddish sentence construction at the post-beginner level, through reading, speaking, listening, and writing.

Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture by Uriel Weinreich. (Email info@yivo.org to purchase a copy.)

Dovid (David) Braun has taught all levels of Yiddish language at YIVO's intensive summer program since 1990 at Columbia University and New York University. He initiated and taught in the intensive summer programs of the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA) and Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland). He has taught Yiddish language, Yiddish linguistics, and/or general linguistics as a faculty member of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he regularly participates in varied research projects involving Yiddish language and culture. He serves as co-president of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center (Bronx, NY) which is now the only NYC area venue where public Yiddish cultural events are held on a regular basis.

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