Calendar of Classes

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 develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate III 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 twice-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 Intermediate IV Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

Aleksandra Jakubczak explores how Jews in Eastern Europe understood and experienced the body, sexuality, and desire in the modern era, looking beyond marriage and family life to examine a wide range of intimate experiences and practices.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I 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 enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is appropriate for Yiddish students at the advanced level.

Netta Ehrlich examines Jewish self-defense as a response to anti-Jewish violence in the Russian Empire, exploring both the practice itself and how it was represented in literature and contemporary documentation.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Advanced 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 develops 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 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.

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

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

Samuel Kassow explores the Oyneg-shabes archive as an act of spiritual and cultural resistance in the face of Nazi oppression.

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

Vera Szabó guides students through excerpts from the memoir of educator, feminist, and Zionist Puah Rakovsky, examining its historical and cultural context, voice, and stylistic variation.

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.

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

Abraham Lichtenbaum traces how the one-act play brought great literature to Yiddish-speaking audiences and helped make Yiddish theater a lasting cultural force.

Reading aloud in the tradition of Yiddish literary salons, Mikhl Yashinsky leads a group through Der yidisher hamlet, an 1897 adaptation that moves Shakespeare’s tragedy to a Hasidic rebbe’s court.

Samuel Kassow traces Warsaw’s rise as a Jewish metropolis, where the Jewish population grew five-fold and the city became a center of Jewish politics, literature, and culture.

David Fishman explores Ukraine as a site of both great Jewish tragedy and extraordinary Jewish creativity, from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Josh Price introduces Sholem Aleichem, the torchbearer of modern Yiddish literature, and the tragicomic tradition his unique voice helped create.

From biblical times to the modern era, Ilan Stavans examines the great Jewish translators and the texts they carried across more than a dozen languages.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen reveals how hundreds of thousands of Jewish farmers worked millions of acres around the world, and the philanthropic campaigns that made it possible.

Jenna Weissman Joselit examines the life and ideas of Mordecai Kaplan, one of the most celebrated and most criticized figures in twentieth-century American Judaism.

Elly Moseson examines where science, magic, and religion met in Ashkenazi culture, and how Jewish scholars responded to the rise of modern science.

Kalman Weiser explores the intertwined careers of Max Weinreich and Solomon Birnbaum, two giants of Yiddish scholarship with competing visions of the language.

Ofer Dynes and Alex Valdman trace the making of Jewish modernity, from Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment to modern Jewish politics, through Hebrew and Yiddish classics and primary documents.

Eve Jochnowitz recreates recipes and techniques from Yiddish sources that Jewish balebostes used to stay healthy through bitter Eastern European winters.

The Klezmatics’ Lorin Sklamberg leads a singalong through the Yiddish folksongs collected by Ruth Rubin, celebrating the 120th anniversary of her birth.