Beginners Conversation with Motl Didner
Tuesdays 1:30 – 3:00pm: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Build skills in speaking and listening comprehension to become conversational in Yiddish.
Course Tools: New vocabulary and cultural concepts.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required. This is NOT a repetition of the 2018 course.

Learn to Read Yiddish in 4 Sessions with Kolya Borodulin
Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00pm: June 25 July 2, 9, 16
Course Goals: Learn to read the Yiddish alphabet.
Course Tools: Short Yiddish texts and poems.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required. 50% off if taken together with Intensive Beginner I

Intensive Beginners I with Noah Barrera
Mondays, Wednesdays 6:30-8:00 pm July 1, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, Aug. 5, 7
Course Goals: This intensive beginner’s Yiddish course is the equivalent of a 12-week semester of Yiddish. It will meet twice a week for 5 weeks, completing a chapter a week, up through the first 4 chapters of Colloquial Yiddish. The focus of the course is conversation. Students are strongly advised to supplement with Learn to Read Yiddish in 4 sessions course.
Course Tools: Colloquial Yiddish by Lily Kahn (Copies of chapters will be provided upon request)
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I with Eve Jochnowitz   
Mondays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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 1), supplementary basic reading texts and songs provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners I (continuation) with Eve Jochnowitz   
Wednesdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
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 7), supplementary basic reading texts and songs provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Some previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys required. This is a continuation of the Spring 2019 class.

Intermediate II (continuation) with Eve Jochnowitz
Thursdays 1:00 – 2:30 pm: June. 27, July 11, 18, 25, August 1
Course Goals: Continue developing comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills.
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker (starting with Unit 1), supplementary basic reading texts and songs.
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 Conversation with Eve Jochnowitz
Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:30 pm: July 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 31
Course Goals: Study the life and culture of the Yiddish-speaking world while building skills in speaking and listening comprehension. 
Course Tools: Readings in transliteration provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Course is conducted almost entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Leyzer Burko: The Real Tevye
Mondays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Course Goals: Students will get to know the hero of Sholem-Aleichem's novel, as well as his later incarnations in the stage and film adaptations. Was Tevye really such an ignoramus? What happened to his other daughters, who don't appear in "Fiddler"? What did he do once he arrived in America? (Hint: The original Tevye never sets out for America.)
Course Tools: Sholem-Aleichem's novel Tevye the Dairyman
Additional Info: Intermediate reading proficiency required.

Advanced with Eve Jochnowitz
Tuesdays 12:00 – 2:00 pm: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Explore reading material from Yiddish literature and press with special emphasis on the stories of Y. L. Peretz  
Course Tools: Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. II by Sheva Zucker (starting from Unit 20), supplementary readings & songs provided by the instructor.
Additional Info: Course is conducted almost entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Eugene Orenstein: The Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Literature
6:00 – 7:30 pm: July 17, 18, 23, 25
Course Goals: To analyze the rise of Modern Yiddish literature as a result of the struggle between Hasidism and Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment movement) in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Course Tools:  The Wise Man and the Simpleton by Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav, Mendl Lefin’s Yiddish translation of the Book of Proverbs, and Dr. Shloyme Ettinger’s poem Vitl.
Additional Info: Course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Beginners I with Yankl-Peretz Blum
Tuesdays 1:30 – 3:00 pm: June 25 July 2, 9, 16, 23
Course Goals: Learn common Yiddish words and gaining familiarity with the Yiddish writing system.
Course Tools: The interactive learning website YiddishPOP.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys is not required.

Beginners Yiddish Literacy with Paula Teitelbaum
Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Learn common Yiddish words and how to read them in print.
Course Tools: Teacher created materials which follow the alef-beys lessons in the first 5 units of Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vol. I by Sheva Zucker.
Additional Information: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys not required.

Beginner Conversation with Elena Luchina
Tuesdays 1:00 – 2:30 July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Course Goals: Build skills in speaking and listening comprehension to become conversational in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Teacher created materials on topics including greetings, family, food, appearance, city, etc.
Additional Info: Previous knowledge of the Alef-Beys not required.

Intermediate I-II with Noah Barrera*
Tuesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30  
Course Goals: Developing stronger comprehension, speaking, reading and grammar skills using a textbook written in Yiddish.
Course Tools: Dovid Goldberg’s Yidish af yidish (starting w/chapter 1). Selections from Hanan Bordin’s Vort ba 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.

*Registration for this class is closed.

Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: Mysteries of Yiddish Literature in Latin America - Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, and Cuba
Mondays 1:00 – 2:30pm: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Course Goals: Throughout this course we will discover forgotten Yiddish writers who left behind di alte heym and continued their literary work in exotic Latin American landscapes.
Course Tools: Works by Latin American Yiddish writers
Additional Info: Course is conducted entirely in Yiddish. (See course description in Yiddish pdf)

Advanced with Leyzer Burko: Introduction to Yiddish Dialects
Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
Course goals: This course will teach you how to talk like a Litvak, a Galitsianer, a Hungarian, a Bessarabian, and even an Alsatian. Students will learn the difference between sabesdike loshn, tote-mome-loshn, khirek-loshn, and all the other loshns. Each dialect is fascinating in itself and also provides clues about how the Yiddish language began.
Course tools: Authentic recordings and colorful maps
Additional Info: No knowledge of linguistics required and all materials will be provided. Course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.

Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: Jewish Farmers in Yiddish Literature
Thursdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm: July 4, 11, 18, 25 Aug. 1
Course goals: The Haskalah in Russia introduced Jews to agriculture. As a result, agricultural schools were founded in hundreds of cities and towns throughout the Pale, and Jewish colonies were established in the first half of the 19th century. Yiddish literature reflected this period, preparing laborers for later experiments in the New World, Israel and other countries, at end of 19th beginning of 20th century.  
Course Tools: Examples of this chapter of Jewish history, which the Yiddish authors captured in their work.
Additional Info: Course is conducted entirely in Yiddish. (See course description in Yiddish pdf)

Advanced with Miriam Trinh: Di Goldene Keyt – 70 years after the birth of the unique Israeli Yiddish journal
Sundays 11:00 – 12:30 pm: June 30, July 14, 21, 28 Aug. 4
Course Goals: In this course students will gain an insight into the history and multifaceted nature of the renown Yiddish literary journal, published in Israel and edited by the poet Avrom Sutzkever. 
Course Tools: Texts from and about the “Goldene Keyt”, compiled and provided by the teacher.
Additional Info: Course is conducted entirely in Yiddish.