Intensive Advanced I&II Yiddish
Tuition: $800 | YIVO members: $625**
Students: $400 (Must register with valid university email address)
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This is a live, online course held twice weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.
Instructor: Sheva Zucker
Who should take this course?
This course is appropriate for those who took Intensive Intermediate III&IV Yiddish in spring 2022. It is also appropriate for those who took Intermediate II Yiddish (Online) in the 2022 Summer Program.
What topics will this class cover?
This class will continue the study of Yiddish through speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and literature. Grammatical topics will include possessive forms, verbs of position, numeral adjectives, indirect questions, verbs of asking, plural of numerals, infinitives as nouns, tenses in indirect discourse, accusative of time, and review of all verb forms.
Class will begin with Unit 19 of Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume II. In addition, this class will read Sholem-Aleichem’s Motl Peyse dem khazns (Motl the Cantor’s Son).
Course Materials:
- Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Volume II by Sheva Zucker (Purchase). The answer key (required) and audio (optional) for the textbook may be purchased directly from Sheva Zucker.
- Motl Peyse dem khazns (Motl the Cantor’s Son) by Sholem-Aleichem, edited by Sheva Zucker and Anne Gawenda (Purchase book and audio recording).
Sheva Zucker has taught YIVO’s Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture for over two decades. She is the author of the textbooks Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I and II, which are used widely in university and adult classes around the world. She has taught and lectured on Yiddish and Yiddish literature on five continents and at major universities, including Columbia, New York University, Duke, Bar-Ilan, and Russian State Humanities University. From 2005 to 2020 she served as the executive director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its all-Yiddish publication Afn Shvel. Her research and translation work focus mainly on women in Yiddish literature.
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