An Introduction to Chaim Grade
Tuition: $240 | YIVO members: $180**
This is a live, online course held on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 25 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 English.
Instructor: Josh Price
This course will offer an introduction to the life and work of Chaim Grade (1910, Vilna — 1982, New York). Across four sessions, we will consider Grade's underappreciated poetry as well as his canonical prose in short story and novel form, culminating in the recently-published Sons and Daughters (2025). We will explore Grade's place in Yiddish literary history and his postwar project of remembrance, impossible and necessary in equal measure. Discussion and readings in English; Yiddish originals provided upon request.
Yiddish Level:
Students of all Yiddish levels and students without any Yiddish language background are welcome to register for this course.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all required course materials digitally throughout the class on Canvas.
Questions? Read our 2026 Winter Yiddish Seminars FAQ.
Joshua Price is a Senior Lector in Yiddish at Yale. He received his Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University (2020), with a dissertation on the translation of world literature into Yiddish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work has appeared in In geveb, Jews and Slavs, and Afn shvel. He is currently at work on a study of Yiddish and/as world literature for the forthcoming edited volume Cambridge History of Yiddish Literature.
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