Intermediate I Yiddish (Sunday)

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: Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz

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?
Students will develop the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills learned in Beginner IV Yiddish. Verb tenses, sentence structure and vocabulary will be reviewed, reinforced, and enhanced in context, using song, poetry, and short stories.

Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.

Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz is an associate professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies, The Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.). She has taught Yiddish at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Columbia University and Yivo where she was responsible for the creation of the Yiddish Teachers Resource Center. While living in N.Y., Sonia conducted a teacher training program as part of YIVO’s Summer Program. She is the founder of the Yiddish intensive summer courses “Yiddish on the Continent” held in alternative years in Brussels, Paris, and Berlin. Sonia regularly teaches in the Ot Azoy program organized annually by the Jewish Music Institute in London.

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