Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday)

Tuition: $480 | YIVO members: $375**
Students: $240 (Must register with valid university email address)

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 and English. This class will be 2 hours long with a 10-minute break incorporated in the middle.

Instructor: Reb Noyekh (Noah Barrera)

Who should take this course?
This course is for those who have previously taken two semesters of Yiddish. It is appropriate for those who took Beginner II Yiddish in Spring 2023.

What topics will this class cover?
In this class, students will begin with review of grammar covered in previous chapters of the instructor’s textbook Fun onheyb: the past tense, reflexive verbs, nouns, and personal pronouns as direct and indirect objects. We will then cover new topics with special emphasis on verbs with separable prefixes and the idiomatic use of the dative case with certain verbs and in common expressions. We will build our vocabulary and read various texts of increasing difficulty while continuing to practice our writing and speaking skills.

Is knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet required?
Yes, knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet is required.

Course Materials:
This course will use a variety of learning materials and methods, including a contemporary textbook, Fun onheyb (written by the instructor), a series of PowerPoint presentations, and literary texts with accompanying recordings. All course materials will be provided digitally on Canvas.

Reb Noyekh is a Yiddish educator, writer, translator, and content creator. A native of California, he began learning Yiddish more than 10 years ago at UC Santa Cruz where he majored in Jewish Studies. He later studied and taught in the YIVO zumer program for several years and coordinated and taught Yiddish language classes at Der Arbeter Ring in New York. As a writer, his articles and original stories have appeared in the Forverts, Afn Shvel, Yiddish Branzhe, and elsewhere. He is preparing a book of his original short stories titled “Di feygelekh fun honolulu un andere mayses” [The Birds of Honolulu and other Stories]. Reb Noyekh is an accomplished translator. His academic translation, with Nathaniel Deutsch, of The Lost World of Russia’s Jews, was released in 2021 by Indiana University Press. Reb Noyekh is also a prolific content creator on both TikTok and YouTube, and recently launched an all-Yiddish podcast, Mit layb un lebn.

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