Beginners Conversation with Leyzer Burko
Sundays 10:15 – 11:45 am: Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec.  8, 15, 22 Jan. 5, 12
Course Goals: Build skills in speaking and listening comprehension to become conversational in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Practice conversing with fellow students using new vocabulary and cultural concepts.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Noah Barrera (A)
Sundays 10:15 – 11:45 am: Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec.  8, 15, 22, 29 Jan. 5, 12
Course Goals: Learn basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Colloquial Yiddish by Lilly Kahan (Units 1 – 5); Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (Units 1 – 5). The instructor will distribute copies of material from Colloquial Yiddish; students are required to purchase Sheva’s Zucker’s Yiddish: An Introduction.  
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Noah Barrera (B)
Mondays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 7, 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 9, 16, 23 Jan. 6, 13, 20
Course Goals: Learn basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Colloquial Yiddish by Lilly Kahan (Units 1 – 5); Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (Units 1 – 5). The instructor will distribute copies of material from Colloquial Yiddish; students are required to purchase Sheva’s Zucker’s Yiddish: An Introduction.  
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I (continuation) with Sheva Zucker
Monday 1:15 – 2:45 pm: Sept. 16, 23, Oct. 7, 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23
Course Goals: Basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 6), supplementary basic reading texts and songs
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is required.

Beginners I (continuation) with Noah Barrera
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27, Dec. 4, 11, 18 Jan. 8, 15
Course Goals: Learn basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Colloquial Yiddish (Unit 5); Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker
(Unit 5); the instructor will distribute material from Colloquial Yiddish; supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys not required.

Beginners II with Paula Teitelbaum (continuation)
Wednesdays 3:00 – 4:30 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20 Dec. 4, 11, 18 Jan. 8, 15, 22
Course Goals: Learn basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 8A), supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
Additional Info: Knowledge of the Alef-Beys required, although fluency in reading is not expected.

Beginners III with Paula Teitelbaum  
Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17 Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28
Course Goals: Continue learning basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (Unit 9B), supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
Additional Info: Some previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys required, although fluency is not expected. This IS a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

New! Intermediate II with Noah Barrera
Sundays 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec.  8, 15, 22, 29 Jan. 5, 12
Course Goals: Developing stronger comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills using a textbook written in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Yidish af yidish by Dovid Goldberg (starting with chapter 1); selections from Hanan Bordin’s Vort bay vort. 
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. For students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed the Beginners courses.

Intermediate II  with Paula Teitelbaum
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20 Dec. 4, 11, 18 Jan. 8, 15, 22
Course Goals: Continue learning Yiddish with a stronger focus on developing comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills in context.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 12A).
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. For students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed the Beginners courses. This IS a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate II (continuation) with Sheva Zucker
Wednesdays 6:15 – 7:45 pm: Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20 Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: Continue Intermediate level study of Yiddish reading, writing, speaking, and grammar. 
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 15B; Motl Peyse dem Khazns by Sholem Aleichem, (starting with Ch.4).
Additional Info: The course is designed for those with approximately two years to 2.5 years of Yiddish language study. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate III (continuation) with Paula Teitelbaum
Tuesdays 3:00 – 4:30 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17 Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28
Course Goals: Continue Intermediate study of Yiddish reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II (starting with Unit 12B), With Great Pleasure compiled and edited by Heather Valencia
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate-Advanced Conversation with Leyzer Burko
Sundays 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Sept. 22 Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec.  8, 15, 22 Jan. 5, 12
Course Goals: Study the life and culture of the Yiddish-speaking world while building skills in speaking and listening comprehension. 
Course Tools: Material in Yiddish with transliteration provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Course is conducted almost entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Sheva Zucker
Mondays 3:00 – 4:30 pm: Sept. 16, 23 Oct. 7, 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23
Course Goals: Interpret and understand the traditional life of East European Jewry and improve vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills.
Course Tools: Stories of Vilna by Avrom Karpinovitsh, poetry, newspaper articles, student presentations.
Additional Info: This course will be taught entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Leyzer Burko
Tuesdays 1:00 – 3:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17 Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28
Course Goals: Explore reading material from Yiddish literature and press while continuing to build skills in speaking, writing and listening comprehension.  
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 20), supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
Additional Info: Course is conducted almost entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Kolya Borodulin
Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7, 14, 21
Course Goals: Read and analyze Yiddish literature, poetry, and songs.
Course Tools: Zalman Scheour’s Der mamzer (The bastard), a selection of poetry and songs, additional historical material.
Additional Info: This course is taught entirely in Yiddish.

Beginner Conversation I with Leyzer Burko
Mondays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, Jan. 6
Course Goals: Build skills in speaking and listening comprehension to become conversational in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Materials on topics of greetings, family history, food
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Yankl-Peretz Blum
Sundays 11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec. 8, 15, 22, 29
Course Goals: Build basic skills in comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: YiddishPOP.com (Lessons 1.1 through 2.5).
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Miriam Koral Wednesdays 6:00-7:30 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27  Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: Learn the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, conversational skills, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (Units 1 – 3), songs and specialized handouts.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Paula Teitelbaum
Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 17, 24, 31 Nov. 7, 14, 21 Dec. 5, 12, 19, Jan. 9
Course Goals: Learn the Yiddish alphabet, basic reading, writing, conversational skills, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (Units 1 – 3), songs and specialized handouts.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I (continuation) with Miriam Koral
Mondays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Continue building skills in reading, writing, conversational skills, and Yiddish grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 4), songs and specialized handouts.
Additional Info: Basic reading, writing and conjugation in the present tense required. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Beginners I (continuation of Spring Course) with Yankl-Peretz Blum 
Tuesdays 11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7
Course Goals: Continue building basic skills in comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar. 
Course Tools: YiddishPOP.com (Lessons 3.1 through 4.5).
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I (continuation of Summer Course) with Yankl-Peretz Blum
Tuesdays 1:30  – 3:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7
Course Goals: Build basic skills in comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar. 
Course Tools: YiddishPOP.com (Lessons 2.1 through 3.5)
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys not required.  

Beginners I (continuation) with Leyzer Burko
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: Basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: The course’s primary textbook College Yiddish by Uriel Weinreich, starting from Lesson 5
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys not required.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED
Beginners II (continuation) with Miriam Koral
Wednesdays 1:30 – 3:00 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: Strengthen and improve conversational skills, learn the next level of comprehensive Yiddish grammar (e.g., past tense, cases), enhance vocabulary and reading skills.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (from Unit 7), class-tailored handouts.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of basic reading, writing and grammar (present-tense conjugation, modifying adjectives, etc.) required.

Intermediate I with Natalia Krynicka 
Mondays 11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Build skills in basic comprehension, reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 12), supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
Additional Info: This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate II with Noah Barrera
Tuesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7
Course Goals: Developing stronger comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills using a textbook written in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Yidish af yidish by Dovid Goldberg (starting with chapter 2); selections from Hanan Bordin’s Vort bay vort. All material covered in each lesson will be emailed to the students prior to class.  
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. For students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed the Beginners courses.

Intermediate II with David Braun
Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7
Course Goals: Continue learning Yiddish for students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed an elementary course.
Course Tools: College Yiddish by Uriel Weinreich (starting with Lesson 24).
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. For students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed the Beginners courses. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate III with Sheva Zucker 
Sundays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm: Sept. 22 Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec. 8, 15, 22
Course Goals: Continue intermediate level study of Yiddish reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Literary text and songs, Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol.II by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 18B/19A), Motl Peyse dem Khazns by Sholem Aleichem (starting with Ch. 5).
Additional Info: The course is designed for those with approximately 3 years of Yiddish language study.

Intermediate III with Natalia Krynicka 
Mondays 1:30 – 3:00 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Continue learning Yiddish with a stronger focus on developing comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills in context.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 17).
Additional Info: Taught almost entirely in Yiddish. For students who have a working knowledge of Yiddish or who have completed the Beginners courses. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate-Advanced with Kolya Borodulin: Mit Yidish iber der velt
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: Introduce students to key Yiddish cultural figures from past to present. Meet and have a chat in mame-loshn with contemporary Yiddishists.
Course Tools: Texts and multimedia by and about outstanding Yiddishists
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish. (It is not a repetition of previous courses.)

Intermediate Yiddish literature with Sheva Zucker
Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 2, 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Dec. 4, 11
Course Goals: Students will read and discuss Yiddish literature. Grammar will be taught as it comes up through the readings. 
Course Tools: Selected readings from prose writers Sholem Aleichem, Tsvi Ayzenman, Moyshe Nadir, and Masha Rolnikayte; and poets Celia Dropkin, Itsik Manger, Reyzl Zhikhlinski, and others. 
Additional Info: The course is designed for those with approximately 1.5 to 2.5 years of Yiddish language study. It will be taught entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced Yiddish with Gennady Estraikh: Jewish Radicals
Sundays 10:00 – 11:30 am: Oct. 6, 27 Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 Dec.  8, 15, 22, 29
Course Goals: Learn about Jewish radicals of the 19th and 20th Century, including Morris Winchevsky, Chaim Zhitlovsky, Abraham Cahan, Raphael Abramovitch, Esther Frumkin, Adela Kean Zametkin, Moyshe Olgin, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, Henryk Ehrlich, Victor Alter, and H. Leivick.
Course Tools: The life stories and writings of eleven Yiddish-speaking-and-writing radicals
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED
NEW! Advanced Yiddish with Dovid Katz
Mondays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25 Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: To strengthen participants’ powers of expression in Yiddish through emphasis on structure, style, lexicon, grammar and idiomaticity. 
Course Tools: Readings from diverse genres and periods will be provided electronically as the course progresses.
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Miriam Trinh: The Loyalty and Joy of Yiddish in Avrom Sutzkever’s Work During and After The Khurbn 
Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24 Jan. 7
Course Goals: To read and discuss Avrom Sutzkever’s work from the years during and after the Khurbn, and explore the different ways in which Sutzkever succeeded in starying a Yiddish poet and activist in surroundings which were not the world of Yiddish civilization which had shaped him.
Course Tools: The work of Avrom Sutzkever
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced Literature with Yitskhok Niborski: Jackpots, Illusions, and Devils
Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 16, 23, 30 Nov. 6, 13, 20, 27 Dec. 4, 11, 18
Course Goals: To explore the theme of lottery in Yiddish Theater and in the Yiddish Press, which manifests in two categories: hopes, disappointments, and comic or tragic episodes which are connected to a game of chance in which the illusion of winning blinds one from a statistically certain loss; and the dramatic moral changes that come with becoming wealthy (a variation on the folklore of a poor man receiving unexpected riches from a supernatural force).
Course Tools: Aaron Zeitlin’s play “Der veber fun balut,” [The Weaver of Balut], Yankev Gordin’s “Got, mentsh un tayvl” [God, Man, and Devil], Sholem Aleichem’s “Dos groyse gevins” [The Jackpot], short stories by Hersh-Dovid Nomberg and Zalmen Vendrof, as well as an essay by Shloyme Bikl.  
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Sheva Zucker 
Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Nov. 7, 14, 21 Dec. 5, 12
Course Goals: Begin advanced level study of Yiddish language, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and grammar.
Course Tools: Yiddish autobiographies including those of Yoysef Buloff, Shmerke Kaczerginski, Gina Medem, Urke Nachalnik and Esther Rosenthal Shnayderman; Yidish af Yidish by Dovid Goldberg 
Additional Info: The course is designed for those with approximately 3 to 3.5 years of Yiddish language study. It assumes you have finished Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker or the equivalent. This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced Yiddish with Michael Wex: Es Nisht Di Khale Far Hamoytse / Yiddish Idioms
Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: Oct. 24, 31 Nov. 7, 14, 21 Dec. 5, 12, 19 Jan. 2, 9 
Course Goals: To explore how Yiddish terminology and idiomatic expressions give considerable and often colorful insight into the language itself and the culture shared by its speakers.
Course Tools: We will look at the main sources of Yiddish idioms, along with idioms relating to every phase of Jewish life.
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: The Argentinian Contribution to Yiddish Literature - Jewish Colonists and Jews in the Big City
Thursdays 2:45 – 4:15 pm: Oct. 17, 24, 31 Nov. 7, 14, 21 Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26
Course Goals: To explore the contributions of Argentinian Yiddish writers at the end of the 19th century.
Course Tools: The writers which we will read in this course describe the “Jewish Gaucho” (peasant) and the Jew in the big city.
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: New Paths in Yiddish Literature
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: Oct. 17, 24, 31 Nov. 7, 14, 21 Dec. 5, 12, 19, 26
Course Goals: To explore how the classics prepared the way for a modern Yiddish literature through the works of three Yiddish writers: Leyb Naydus, Moyshe Broderzon, and A.M. Vaysenberg.
Course Tools: The works of Leyb Naydus, Moyshe Broderzon, and A.M. Vaysenberg
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced Yiddish with Leyzer Burko: The Yiddish of the Underworld
Mondays 2:45 – 4:15 pm: Oct. 28 Nov. 4, 11, 18, 25
Course Goals: We will learn the argot of thieves (hentshke-loshn, lit. 'glove language'), musicians, actors, and other social outcasts. Hundreds of Yiddish words were borrowed into the criminal slang of numerous European languages—not to mention English. We will learn how to curse in Yiddish, the art of vulgarity, and the arcane lore of Yiddish sex terminology.
Course Tools: excerpts from the rich literature by and about Yiddish criminals, including the infamous forger and nihilist Uri Kovner, and the memoirs of the thief Urke Nachalnik, who died a hero resisting the Nazis.
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Boris Sandler: The Generation After Everyone’s Gone
Mondays: 2:45 – 4:15 pm: Dec. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: To explore the works of Yiddish writers born post-Holocaust and the extermination of Yiddish literature and culture in the Soviet Union, and the unique paths they took to discover Yiddish.
Course Tools: Works by  Mikhael Felzenboym, Zisi Veytsman, Alexander Belausov, Genady Estraikh, Moyshe  Lemster, Velvl Tshernin, and Boris Sandler.  
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced Yiddish with Dov-Ber Kerler: One Hundred Years Ago - 1919 in the Rise of Modern Yiddish Poetry.
Tuesdays 2:45 – 4:15 pm: Nov. 12, 19, 26 Dec. 3, 10
Course Goals: To learn about the poetry produced in the years leading up to 1919, the major works of poetry published in that year, and read Yiddish poetry created by major poets whose work shaped modern Yiddish poetry.
Course Tools:
Additional Info: This course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.