Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday Morning)

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

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: Philip Schwartz

Who should take this course?
This course is for those who have previously taken two semesters of Yiddish. It is appropriate for those who took Beginner II Yiddish in spring 2022. It is also appropriate for those who took Beginner Yiddish (Online) or Beginner I Yiddish (In-Person) in the 2022 Summer Program and are looking for a review.

What topics will this class cover?
Building upon prior skills, this course will further develop speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension in Yiddish. In addition to reading texts of historic and living Yiddish culture from around the world, students will listen to songs and recorded dialogues. Themes will include holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Hanukkah.

After a review of grammar and vocabulary covered in the first volume of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, this class will work mainly with the second volume. The course will cover basic grammar — most importantly, the dative case and the past tense.

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.

Philip Schwartz is a student of Yiddish literature and holds an MA degree in Jewish Studies from the University of Wrocław, Poland. His areas of specialization are neo-Hasidic literature and Soviet Yiddish culture. Before specializing in Yiddish language and literature, he studied Slavic linguistics, Eastern European history, as well as genocide and Holocaust studies. He now works as a Yiddish teacher and translator. Occasionally, he writes for the Forverts and the Birobidzhaner Shtern.

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