Calendar of Classes

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

Explore the historical connection between YIVO and the Oyneg Shabes Archive—the secret archive organized by Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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.

Shane Baker explores the short stories of Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever, considering his prose from historical, cultural, and literary points of view.

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

Read, listen to, and talk about short stories, essays, journalistic writing, folklore, and more from a literary and linguistic point of view with Vera Szabó.

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 Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

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

Follow Esther-Rokhl Kaminska from her native shtetl, to the barns in which her wandering troupe first performs, and eventually to the brightly lit stages of Warsaw in this class taught by Mikhl Yashinsky.

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

Josh Price examines the life and work of Chaim Grade, one of the most profound voices in modern Yiddish literature.

Eugene Orenstein analyzes selected texts from Soviet Yiddish poet Dovid Hofshteyn in order to appreciate the genius of his poetics and the synthesis of his Jewishness and universalism.

Elżbieta Janicka explores how Kosów Lacki’s physical and symbolic landscapes reveal the complex realities of Jewish life, survival, and persecution during the Holocaust.

Through literary texts, Anita Norich explores how Yiddish writers have imagined where they and the Jewish people belong.

Ilan Stavans uncovers the intertwined stories of Sephardim, Ottomans, Ashkenazim, Communists, Shoah survivors, Hasidim, and Israelis whose experiences have defined Jewish identity in Mexico.

From the Rosenberg trial to McCarthyism, Harvey Klehr reveals how fear, politics, and Jewish identity intertwined in the drama of Cold War America.

Through the words of Yiddish writers and firsthand memoirs, this course with Samuel Kassow reveals the “real” shtetl, a complex community that had an enormous impact on Jewish life over the centuries.

Tony Michels explores the ways in which Jews in different countries, but especially the United States, responded to the Russian Revolution.

Maya Benton explores the unique contributions of Jews to shaping the history and medium of photography.

Jonathan Brent explores the lives and memoirs of revolutionaries Victor Serge and Isaac Nachman Steinberg.

J. Hoberman traces how German and Austrian Jewish directors redefined American cinema in the 1940s.

Bring your Yiddish to life through storytelling, style, and imagination in a creative writing course led by Boris Sandler.

Adi Mahalel explores classic Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz’s engagement with early Jewish socialist circles during the 1890s.

Join Dovid Braun for an immersive journey into the voices of YIVO’s founding scholars and discover how their words still shape Yiddish thought today.

Shane Baker explores the nature of the monologue in Yiddish literature and performance and delves into the history of the monologue and of the solo performer in Yiddish theater.

Conducted in English, Perl Teitelbaum teaches Yiddish songs and chants to adults. Parents, grandparents, relatives, friends, and educators who want to bring Yiddish into the world of young children (or to enrich their own inner child!) are encouraged to register.