Yiddish Voices from Latin America

Class starts Jan 11 5:30pm-7:00pm

Tuition: $200 | YIVO members: $150**

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This is a live, online course held on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 25 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, recordings of class sessions, 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, and any readings will be in Yiddish.

Instructor: Adina Cimet

In this course we will acquaint ourselves with a number of Yiddish texts published in the first fifty years of the 20th century in Latin America. They reflect the thoughts, feelings, and ideals that constitute the spiritual heritage of the first Ashkenazim who migrated to Latin America and established communities there.

ייִדישע שטימעס פֿון לאַטײַן־אַמעריקע

אין דעם קורס װעלן מיר זיך באַקענען מיט אַ צאָל טעקסטן װאָס זײַנען דערשינען אויף ייִדיש אין די ערשטע פֿופֿציק יאָר פֿון 20סטן יאָרהונדערט אין לאַטײַן־אַמעריקע. זיי שפּיגלען אָפּ די געדאַנקען, געפֿילן, און אידעאַלן װאָס עס האָבן איבערגעלאָזט בירושה די ערשטע אַשכּנזים װאָס האָבן באַזעצט די דאָרטיקע ייִשובֿים.

Yiddish Level:
This course is for intermediate students. It is appropriate for those who have taken the equivalent of level Giml or above in the YIVO Summer Program. It is also appropriate for those who completed Intermediate II Yiddish, Intensive Intermediate I&II Yiddish, or above in fall 2021.

Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.

Questions? Read our 2022 Winter Yiddish Courses FAQ.

Adina Cimet was born in Mexico City to Eastern European parents. Cimet grew up in a Yiddish speaking home and attended Jewish Day school receiving a trilingual education in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Spanish. Cimet has degrees in Sociology from UNAM University in Mexico City, the London School of Economics, and Columbia University. Cimet has written a variety of academic articles on power differentials, language fights, cultural asymmetries, and political tensions. She is the author of Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico; Ideologies in the Structuring of a Community (SUNY Press) and Jewish Lublin, A Cultural Monograph (Marie-Curie Sklodowska University Press). Cimet has also served as a docent for The Jewish Museum in New York, Director of the EPYC (Educational Program of Yiddish Culture) for YIVO, Director of web page "When these streets heard Yiddish", for YIVO, and Director Consultant (temporary) for Yiddish Pop. Cimet has lectured at UNAM Mexico, Drexel University, and served as an instructor at Columbia University for their Contemporary Civilization Course.

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