Beginner IV Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Sep 18 4:30pm-6:00pm

Tuition: $480 | YIVO members: $375**
Students: $240 (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: Nina Warnke

Who should take this course?
It is appropriate for students who completed Beginner III Yiddish in Spring 2023 or have taken three semesters of Yiddish. It might also be appropriate for the students of the YIVO Summer Program's online Beginner course who want some review of materials covered during the summer before moving forward.

What topics will this class cover?
Students in this course will continue to develop their listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills in Yiddish. Topics covered will include the home, places and activities, expressions of time, the High Holidays and Hanukah. Students will read folk tales, songs, poems, and learn direct and indirect objects, prepositional phrases, word order, sentence structure, the past tense, and modal verbs. After a brief review of grammar covered in previous chapters of In Eynem, we will start with Chapter 11B.

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).

Questions? Read our 2023 Fall Classes FAQ.

Nina Warnke grew up in Germany, where she started to learn Yiddish before studying in the Oxford Summer Program and receiving her Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University. During that time she directed the YIVO zumer program for a few years. Since then Nina has taught Yiddish language, literature and culture at Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin and Vanderbilt University, as well at Gratz College, YIVO, and the Workers Circle. She has researched and written extensively about the Yiddish theater. Nina is also the lead editor of the Rebecca Gratz Digital Archive at Gratz College and is working as a translator of Yiddish and German texts.

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