Intermediate Yiddish
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10 sessions, Thursdays:
February 20, 27; March 5, 12, 19, 26; April 2, 23, 30; May 7 Tuition: $325 Registration is closed. Sign up for YIVO's email list to receive announcements of upcoming classes. |
Instructor: Dovid Braun
This course is for students who are comfortable with the alef-beys and basic conversation, and will enhance skills in speaking, reading, writing, and listening.
Course Materials:
This course will use the textbook College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture, by Uriel Weinreich. The book will be available for purchase on the first day of class.
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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