Pedagogy

Reflections on the teaching and learning of Yiddish, as well as downloadable guides, exercises, and lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Pedagogy

The Golden Peacock and the Green Owl: Analyzing Yiddish Language Learners’ Experiences with Duolingo

This arti­cle sum­ma­rizes the find­ings of a poll of three-hun­dred stu­dents who study Yid­dish with Duolingo.

Pedagogy

Let's not wait!: Introducing preschoolers to Yiddish through Leah Hoffman's Alefbeys

In this piece Beth Dwoskin explains how Leah Hoff­man’s play about the Yid­dish alpha­bet can be adapt­ed for chil­dren’s class­es today. She presents her Eng­lish trans­la­tion of the play along­side a record­ing of the alef­beys song in English.

Pedagogy

Illustrating Ya’akov Fichmann’s Shabes in vald

In this piece Gio­van­na Truong dis­cuss­es her cre­ative process of illus­trat­ing Ya’akov Fich­man­n’s short sto­ry Shabes in vald for a final assign­ment in an inter­me­di­ate Yid­dish lan­guage class.

Pedagogy

Diary of a Yiddish Teacher During the War

On Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022, Russ­ian troops began bomb­ing Yakovl­e­va’s Ukrain­ian, Russ­ian-speak­ing home­town, Kharkiv. Nev­er­the­less, she con­tin­ued teach­ing Yid­dish in Mor­beg­no, Italy.

Pedagogy

Calling all Yiddish Studies Instructors: Un-Essays and Creative Projects

If you are an instruc­tor of Yid­dish Stud­ies who has assigned unes­say projects, we want to hear from you.

Pedagogy

Undzer Mishpokhe: A Queer Yiddish Curriculum Supplement

This arti­cle intro­duces and pro­vides a text­book sup­ple­ment on queer fam­i­ly vocabulary.

Pedagogy

Beyond the Shtetl: Teaching Yiddish Literature in the UK

Rochelle Sib­ley writes about teach­ing Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture in trans­la­tion at a uni­ver­si­ty in the UK.

Pedagogy

Critical Language Pedagogy: A Report from an AJS Roundtable

A report from a round­table with instruc­tors of Jew­ish lan­guages on the cur­rent role of crit­i­cal iden­ti­ties in our pedagogies. 

Pedagogy

Teaching and Producing Original Yiddish Radio

Sha­har Fineberg describes the chal­lenges and out­comes of host­ing a radio work­shop at a Yid­dish sum­mer program.

Pedagogy

Teaching Guide to Kadya Molodovsky's A Jewish Refugee in New York trans. Anita Norich

A teach­ing guide for Kadya Molodovsky’s A Jew­ish Refugee in New York (trans. Ani­ta Norich) in the con­text of refugee literatures.

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