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Class starts Feb 22 10:00am-11:30am

[SPR2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish

Class starts Feb 22 10:30am-12:00pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate I Yiddish

Class starts Mar 8 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday Morning)

Class starts Mar 8 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SPR2026] The World of Eastern European Jewish Migrants

Class starts Feb 22 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Writers Writing about Writers

Class starts Feb 22 1:00pm-2:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday)

Class starts Feb 22 2:00pm-3:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced IV Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

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

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday)

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

[SPR2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Mar 8 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] The Art of the Yiddish Feuilleton

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

[SPR2026] Advanced IV Yiddish (Sunday Evening)

Class starts Mar 8 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] The Life and Thought of Hillel Zeitlin

Class starts Mar 2 10:00am-11:30am

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Mar 9 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Feb 23 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Feb 23 1:30pm-3:00pm

[SPR2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Feb 23 6:30pm-8:00pm

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Feb 17 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Tuesday)

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:00pm

Yiddish Theater, George Gershwin, and the Birth of an American Sound

Class starts Feb 17 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate II Yiddish

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Autobiographical Writing in Yiddish

Class starts Feb 18 10:00am-11:30am

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Wednesday)

Class starts Feb 25 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] A Walk through College Yiddish

Class starts Feb 18 6:30pm-8:00pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)

Wednesday, May 6 | 7:30pm

Ensemble Connect Up Close

Class starts Mar 5 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate III Yiddish

Class starts Feb 19 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Feb 19 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Thursday)

Monday, May 11 | 1:00pm

From Lublin to New York and Back: Yankev Glatshteyn and His Peregrinations

Class starts May 17 11:00am-12:00pm

[SPR2026] Visions of the Jewish Future in Eastern Europe: Education, Language, and Identity

Monday, May 18 | 7:00pm

Khantshe in Amerike — An Operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky

Wednesday, May 20 | 1:00pm

Jewish Songs and Dances for Piano: Juliusz Wolfsohn’s 'Paraphrasen' - Book III

Tuesday, May 26 | 7:00pm

Jews Are Magic: Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics

Thursday, May 28 | 1:00pm

Malka Owsiany Recounts by Mark Turkow

Thursday, May 28 | 7:00pm

Leo Zeitlin and the Music of His World

Sunday, May 31 | 1:00pm

Community Read: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes

Monday, Jun 1 | 1:00pm

Tradition in Installments: Rabbinic Periodicals and the Making of an Orthodox Public Sphere, 1850–1940

Wednesday, Jun 3 | 1:00pm

The Interracial Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954

Monday, Jun 8 | 1:00pm

Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930

Thursday, Jun 11 | 1:00pm

Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity

Trip starts June 22

2026 Study Tour of Lithuania & Poland

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

[SUM2026] Beginner III/IV Yiddish (In-person Intersession)

Class starts Jul 5 10:30am-12:00pm

[SUM2026] Intermediate I Yiddish (Intersession)

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

[SUM2026] Getting Into Yiddish: An Introduction to Yiddish Language and Culture

Class starts Jul 6 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 6 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 7 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SUM2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 8 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Afterlife: Survivors in the Stories of Chava Rosenfarb and Zvi Eisenman

Class starts Jul 9 10:30am-12:00pm

[SUM2026] Deciphering Handwritten Yiddish Documents

Class starts Jul 9 11:00am-12:30pm

[SUM2026] Intermediate III Yiddish (Intersession)

Trip starts July 12

2026 Study Tour of the Balkans

Class starts Jul 12 10:00am-11:30am

[SUM2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Intersession)

Class starts Jul 12 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SUM2026] The Mishpokhe Mayses of I.L. Peretz

Class starts Jul 12 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SUM2026] The Yiddish Occult

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