Beginner II Yiddish (Monday II)

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

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: Miri Koral

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 build Yiddish speaking, listening, writing, reading skills. Students will continue to learn grammar, including imperative, conjugating irregular verbs, forming negative sentences, using adverbs, and the use of diminutive. Topics will include weather, describing person’s appearance, and humorous vignettes about the fictionalized town of Chelm.

This course will cover the equivalent of Units 3 – 6 in Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume I by Sheva Zucker.

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

Course Materials:
This course will use Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume I by Sheva Zucker (Purchase). The instructor will provide supplementary handouts digitally on Canvas.

Questions? Read our 2022 Fall Classes FAQ.

Miri Koral has a passion for Yiddish, which she has been exercising for 25 years as an educator, translator, prize-winning bilingual writer, dialect coach for tv and film, events producer, and international speaker.

She is the Continuing Lecturer in Yiddish at UCLA where she has been teaching language, literature, and film for over 20 years, and the Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language (CIYCL), known for offering active, high quality and comprehensive Yiddish cultural and educational programming on the West Coast since 2000.

She also teaches Yiddish language at all levels online for the Workers Circle. Her original works and translations have appeared in numerous print and on-line publications. Her most recent book-length translation is a biography, entitled Jacob Dinezon, the Mother Among Our Classic Yiddish Writers, by Shmuel Rozhanski (Jewish Storyteller Press (2016). She holds degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University and is a native Yiddish speaker.

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