Calendar of Classes

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This twice-weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Following Uriel Weinreich’s classic textbook College Yiddish, Dovid Braun offers a robust overview of the building blocks of Yiddish words and sentences.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Aleksandra Jakubczak explores the phenomenon of Eastern European Jewish migration, which profoundly affected both the Jews who went abroad and those who stayed behind.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is appropriate for Yiddish students at the advanced level.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Sharon Bar-Kochva considers the felyeton (feuilleton) as a distinctively vibrant expression of Yiddish literary and journalistic creativity.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Samuel Glauber offers an introduction to Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), a prolific yet often underappreciated Warsaw intellectual whose works span the worlds of religious tradition and secular Jewish modernity.

This mini-course from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews examines how Jewish communities in Eastern Europe used education to imagine radically different futures.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish, Beginner IV Yiddish, or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Michael Wex offers an accessible introduction to the Yiddish language, focusing on its historical evolution and its distinctly Jewish character.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Moishele Alfonso prepares students to start learning Yiddish with an introduction to the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, and pronunciation.

Intended for Yiddish students at the upper intermediate level and above, this course will consider the post-Holocaust Yiddish writings of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman.

Eliezer Niborski teaches the skills necessary to decipher handwritten Yiddish documents from diverse times and places.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz guides students through I.L. Peretz’s classic Yiddish stories about family life.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Samuel Glauber explores how Yiddish-speaking Jews have engaged with occult beliefs and practices, including séances, divination, and the investigation of hidden realities.

This weekly class reinforces listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.