Intensive Advanced III&IV Yiddish

This is a live, online course held twice 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 entirely in Yiddish.

Instructor: Dovid Braun

Who should take this course?
This course is appropriate for those enrolled in level Hey or Vov in the 2021 Summer Program.

What topics will this class cover?
Using Yiddish II as a guide, this class will progress lesson by lesson through various tenses, structures of sentences, word building strategies, grammatical points, and vocabulary explorations. The goal will be an expansion of Yiddish vocabulary and of Yiddish sentence construction at the advanced level, through reading, speaking, listening, and writing.

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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