Intensive Advanced V&VI 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: Dovid Braun
Who should take this course?
This course is for those who took Intensive Advanced III&IV Yiddish in fall 2021.
What topics will this class cover?
This course offers a continuation of the study of advanced Yiddish grammar and vocabulary, using Yiddish exclusively in class. The course will use Yiddish II: An Intermediate and Advanced Textbook by Mordkhe Schaechter, the only Yiddish-in-Yiddish textbook for higher-level students. The semester will begin with Lesson 8 of Yiddish II.
Course Materials:
This course will use Yiddish II: An Intermediate and Advanced Textbook by Mordkhe Schaechter (Purchase).
Dovid (David) Braun has taught all levels of Yiddish language at YIVO's intensive summer program since 1990 at Columbia University and New York University. He initiated and taught in the intensive summer programs of the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA) and Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland). He has taught Yiddish language, Yiddish linguistics, and/or general linguistics as a faculty member of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he regularly participates in varied research projects involving Yiddish language and culture. He serves as co-president of the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center (Bronx, NY) which is now the only NYC area venue where public Yiddish cultural events are held on a regular basis.
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