Beginner II Yiddish (Monday I)

Class starts Sep 12 5:00pm-6:30pm

Tuition: $450 | YIVO members: $350**
Students: $225 (Must register with valid university email address)

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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 in Yiddish and English.

Instructor: Nina Warnke

Who should take this course?
This course is for those who have previously taken one semester of Yiddish. It is appropriate for those who took Beginner I Yiddish in spring 2022.

What topics will this class cover?
This course will enhance skills in listening, speaking, writing, and reading Yiddish. Topics include the classroom, family, physical appearance, professions, the High Holidays and Hannukah. In addition to reading a wide variety of songs, poems, and other literary texts, we will study diminutives, negations, separable prefix verbs, the direct object and more. After a very brief review of some salient grammar topics of Beginner I Yiddish, we will start with Chapter 5A of In Eynem.

Is knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet required?
Yes, knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required.

Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, Vol I & II by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, Mikhl Yashinsky (Purchase). The instructor will provide any additional course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.

Questions? Read our 2022 Fall Classes FAQ.

Nina Warnke currently teaches online Yiddish language courses for Gratz College. She was born and raised in Germany, where she started to learn Yiddish before studying in the Oxford Summer Program and receiving her Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University. During that time she directed the YIVO zumer program for a few years. Since then Nina taught Yiddish language, literature and culture courses at Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin and Vanderbilt University. She has researched and written extensively about the Yiddish theater and is also working as a translator of Yiddish and German texts.

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