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Class starts Sep 24 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Sep 24 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish

Class starts Sep 24 2:00pm-3:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Twice-a-week)

Class starts Oct 11 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Advanced I Yiddish

Class starts Oct 11 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Bodies, Desire, and Sexuality in Eastern European Jewish History

Class starts Oct 11 10:30am-12:00pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate II Yiddish

Class starts Oct 11 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday Morning)

Class starts Oct 11 12:00pm-1:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature and Grammar: The Yiddish Underworld

Class starts Oct 11 12:00pm-1:30pm

[FALL2026] Pogroms and Jewish Self-Defense in the Russian Empire, 1881-1921

Class starts Oct 11 2:00pm-3:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced V Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Oct 11 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Sunday)

Class starts Oct 11 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Oct 11 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced V Yiddish (Sunday Evening)

Class starts Sep 28 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Sep 28 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced III Yiddish

Class starts Sep 28 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate I Yiddish

Class starts Sep 29 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Sep 22 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Sep 22 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Advanced II Yiddish

Class starts Nov 3 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2026] Spiritual Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the 'Oyneg-Shabes' Archive

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate I Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Sep 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Intermediate III Yiddish

Class starts Sep 23 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Wednesday)

Class starts Sep 23 10:00am-11:30am

[FALL2026] The Memoirs of Puah Rakovsky

Class starts Sep 23 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2026] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Jan 4 11:00am-12:30pm

[WY2027] Alefbeys Workshop

Class starts Jan 4 6:30pm-8:00pm

[WY2027] 150 Years of Modern Yiddish Theater: The One-Act Play

Class starts Jan 4 7:00pm-8:30pm

[WY2027] Der yidisher hamlet: A Lively Theatrical Salon

Class starts Jan 5 9:00am-10:15am

[WP2027] Ester Frumkin and Other Women of the Bund

Class starts Jan 5 10:45am-12:00pm

[WP2027] How Mensches Were Made: Politics and Ethics in Yiddish Children’s Literature

Class starts Jan 5 10:45am-12:00pm

[WP2027] Four Strategies for Jewish Survival

Class starts Jan 5 12:00pm-1:15pm

[WP2027] The Rise of Jewish Warsaw: 1862-1939

Class starts Jan 5 1:00pm-2:15pm

[WP2027] Ukrainian Jewish History from Khmelnytsky to Zelensky

Class starts Jan 5 2:00pm-3:30pm

[WY2027] “Let’s Talk About Something More Cheerful”: An Introduction to Sholem Aleichem

Class starts Jan 5 2:30pm-3:45pm

[WP2027] Kissing Through a Veil: A History of Jewish Translation

Class starts Jan 5 2:30pm-3:45pm

[WP2027] Jewels from the Earth: Jewish Agriculturalism on Four Continents

Class starts Jan 5 4:00pm-5:15pm

[WP2027] Mordecai Kaplan and the Reinvention of Jewish Identity in America

Class starts Jan 5 6:30pm-7:45pm

[WP2027] The Wonders of Creation: Science, Nature, and the Supernatural in Ashkenazi Culture

Class starts Jan 5 6:30pm-8:00pm

[WY2027] Yiddish and Yidishkeyt in the Lives and Work of Max Weinreich and Solomon Birnbaum

Class starts Jan 6 9:00am-10:15am

[WP2027] The Jewish Nineteenth Century

Class starts Jan 6 12:00pm-1:15pm

[WP2027] Eugenics and the Jews: An American History and Beyond

Class starts Jan 6 3:00pm-4:30pm

[WY2027] Rozhinkes mit mandlen: Winter Fruit and Nuts in Ashkenazic Cuisine

Class starts Jan 7 6:00pm-7:30pm

[WY2027] Khanele di kuritse mit di lange hent (Chane the Shorty with Long Arms): A Ruth Rubin Zingeray

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