Beginner IV Yiddish (Sunday)

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

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: Reb Noyekh (Noah Barrera)

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 III 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?
Students will strengthen their speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills in this course. Grammatical topics will include conditionals, converbs, and periphrastic verbs. This class will begin with Unit 13 of Colloquial Yiddish by Lily Kahn and complete Unit 15, the final chapter of the textbook. Then, the class will begin reading Dos kluge shnayderl (The Clever Little Tailor), a work of children's literature by Solomon Simon.

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

Course Materials:

This course will use the textbook Colloquial Yiddish by Lily Kahn (Purchase). The audio files for the textbook are available free of charge on the publisher's website.
This course will also use the book The Clever Little Tailor by Solomon Simon (Purchase).

Questions? Read our 2022 Fall Classes FAQ.

Reb Noyekh is a Yiddish educator, writer, translator, and YouTube content creator. A native of California, he began learning Yiddish at UC Santa Cruz where he majored in Jewish Studies. He later studied and taught in the YIVO zumer program for several years and coordinated and taught Yiddish language classes at Der Arbeter Ring in New York. His articles and original stories have appeared in the Yiddish Daily Forverts, Afn Shvel, and elsewhere. His academic translation, together with Nathaniel Deutsch, of Abraham Rechtman's ethnographic account of the Ansky expedition, will soon be published by Indiana University Press. Reb Noyekh is also a prolific YouTube content creator; together with his partner Gustavo Emos, he has created over 100 hours of Yiddish content on YouTube.

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