Intermediate I Yiddish (Monday)

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, with some English used when necessary.

Instructor: Vera Szabó

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

What topics will this class cover?
In this class, students will continue their journey of acquiring Yiddish grammar. Students will deepen and strengthen their prior knowledge through various oral and written exercises. Students will read, listen, speak, and write on a variety of topics such as abilities and activities, clothing, weather, seasons, and vacations.

After a brief review, this course will begin with Chapter 19 of Volume II of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook. Further readings will include Yiddish texts from various styles and genres such as folklore, literary prose, drama, songs, and poetry.

Course Materials:
The instructor will provide some handouts digitally throughout the class on Canvas. Students should purchase the following required textbooks:

• In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, Vol I & II by Asya Vaisman Schulman, Jordan Brown, Mikhl Yashinsky (Purchase).
• College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture by Uriel Weinreich. (Email info@yivo.org to purchase.)
• Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume II by Sheva Zucker (Purchase). The audio and answer key may be purchased directly from Sheva Zucker.

All students studying Yiddish at YIVO are eligible for a student discount for online access to both Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary by Bochner/Beinfeld and Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary by Schaechter-Viswanath/Glasser. Students taking this class should obtain online access and/or the print versions of the dictionaries.

Recommended:

• Verterbukh fun loshn-koydesh-shtamike verter in yidish by Yitskhok Niborski (Paris, 1912) (Purchase).

Vera Szabó was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. She holds an M.A. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University as well as an M.A. in English and German Studies from ELTE University, Budapest.

She has taught Yiddish language, literature and folklore at various universities in the US (University of Michigan, Stanford, the University of Washington) and in Israel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) as well as in various intensive summer programs (NYU/YIVO, Vilna, and Tel Aviv University.) She currently teaches various levels of Yiddish at Beth Shalom Aleichem.

Vera also translates literary and non-literary texts from Yiddish and Hungarian into English. Her research interest is Yiddish folklore. A certified yoga teacher, Vera has been teaching yoga in Yiddish for the past five years in Jerusalem, where she resides. More information on her website: www.verele.com

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