Intensive Advanced III&IV Yiddish
Tuition: $850 | YIVO members: $680**
Students: $425 (Must register with valid university email address)
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This is a live, online course held 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: Sharon Bar-Kochva
Who should take this course?
This course is for those who took Intensive Advanced I&II Yiddish in fall 2021.
What topics will this class cover?
The purpose of the course is to develop all language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The class will work on advanced grammar topics, such as different verbal structures, the use of prefixes and converbs, and various noun-forms. The class will read literary and non-literary texts (short stories, poems newspaper articles etc.), listen to audio-recordings, sing Yiddish songs, and play games.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.
Sharon Bar-Kochva works as a Yiddish teacher and a librarian in the Paris Yiddish Center, where she is also head of the pedagogical team. She has been teaching Yiddish in various levels worldwide since 2004, both in academic and non-academic frameworks. She received her PhD from Inalco University in Paris on the topic of Pseudonymes of Yiddish and Hebrew writers.
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