Advanced I Yiddish
Tuition: $480 | YIVO members: $385**
Students: $240 (Must register with valid university email address)
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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.
Instructor: Daniel Birnbaum
Who should take this course?
This course is for those who took Intermediate IV Yiddish in fall 2021.
What topics will this class cover?
This course will strike a balance between reading texts, improving communication skills, and reviewing relevant grammar. Students will further their abilities by reading and listening to texts of increasing difficulty, discussing these texts in class, and writing short essays. Along the way, we will also practice advanced grammatical topics such as the use and meaning of separable prefixes, the construction of the passive voice, comparative adjectives, and conditional sentences.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all course materials, including an advanced Yiddish workbook, literary texts, and recordings, digitally throughout the class on Canvas. It is expected that students have access to one of the modern Yiddish dictionaries.
Daniel Birnbaum has been teaching Yiddish to students from Israel and around the world since 2007. Daniel hold a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Oberlin College an M.A. in Comparative Literature from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His M.A. thesis on S.Y. Abramovich (Mendele Mocher Sforim) under the guidance of Prof. Avrom Novershtern won an award of distinction in Yiddish scholarship. Daniel currently teaches classes at Tel Aviv University, Beth Sholem Aleychem and YIVO. Daniel has developed an original Yiddish textbook for first and second year students, as well as an online Yiddish curriculum. Over the years, he has connected with hundreds of students who seek an access point to Yiddish language and culture and he delights in providing an opening to the richness of that tradition for people from a variety of backgrounds.
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