Intermediate III Yiddish

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 English as needed.

Instructor: Karolina Szymaniak

Who should take this course?
This course is primarily for those who took Intermediate II Yiddish in spring 2022. It is also appropriate for those who took Intermediate Yiddish (In-person) or Intermediate I Yiddish (Online) in the 2022 Summer Program and are looking for a review.

What topics will this class cover?
This class will further develop speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills for students already comfortable reading and conversing in Yiddish. Students will learn to further analyze different genres of Yiddish cultural production and to speak and write about them on an intermediate level. This class will focus on idiomatic structures and their active usage. Selected course topics may also include students’ specific interests and passions, which will be incorporated into the general course syllabus. The course is designed for students who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Yiddish culture, past and present, through a variety of historical and contemporary documents, press, literary texts, and songs.

Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume II by Sheva Zucker (Purchase). The instructor will provide any additional course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.

Karolina Szymaniak is assistant professor at the Jewish Studies Department at the University of Wrocław and Research Fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute. Her research interests range across modern Yiddish literature, Polish-Jewish cultural relations, and translation studies. In addition to having taught Yiddish language and culture throughout Poland and Europe, she has also served as a consultant for the POLIN Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Łódz. Her recent publications include Montages. Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City and My wild goat. Anthology of women Yiddish poets (in Polish). She is also the editor of Rachel Auerbach's ghetto writings, which received the 2016 Polityka History Award.

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