Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California is offering free, biweekly online Yiddish classes with instructor Marianne Tatom (Mirl). We have 2 levels of classes: Advanced Beginners and Intermediate. You must know the Jeiwsh alphabet (alef-beys) for both classes. Regular classes resume January 12, 2024 and continue biweekly through June 14,...
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Elementary Yiddish 101, taught by Alec Burko, at U.C. Berkeley. To be offered in Fall 2023. M, W, F, 1-2pm, in person. In this beginners’ course students will learn to speak, read, and write Yiddish, the original language of East European Jews. Using the communicative method and the new textbook...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Classes Online / Online
The Yiddish Club at Peninsula JCC has transformed since the beginning of the pandemic into FYG - Fishl’s Yiddish Group, meeting on Zoom every Tuesday, 11am PT. A 30-minute presentation in Yiddish is followed by a shmues in Yiddish at every meeting. Fishl - Philip Kutner is the founder, Debbie...
Yankl Levitow teaches Yiddish language and literature classes in the South Bay and Santa Cruz. Learn more at his website In Fall 2023, he is offering the following. Contact Yankl Levitow directly for more info. Intermediate Yiddish. This class is for students with a “starter-level” ability to read and speak. Basic...
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In Yiddish: News, cooking shows, crossword puzzles, and more Word of the Day videos.
Yiddish Culture Online, Yiddish Language and Culture – Informal Learning / Online
Several organizations host online Yiddish discussion/conversation groups: • KlezCalifornia's Flisik Yidish Salon, monthly, Sundays, 2-3pm PT. Each participant gives brief comments (in Yiddish) on the month's theme, followed by an open conversation. For fluent speakers. Hosted by Rosie Kaplan and Evie Groch. • YOMC, Yiddish Open Mic Café, several times...
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Congregation Ner Shalom's Yiddish Tish meets the first Wednesday of each month noon-1pm Pacific Time, currently on Zoom. Read the work of Yiddish writers in the original, translate together, discuss, laugh and enjoy. Join us, no Yiddish knowledge necessary! Led by Reb Irwin Keller. No charge, although contributions are encouraged....
Language classes in New York and online via Google+Hangout.
Henry Sapozniks' website is clearinghouse of a lifetime of his passions, enthusiasms, and projects including but not limited to old time country music, Yiddish vaudeville, scratchy old records, banjo, Tin Pan Alley, Yiddish radio, early animation, competition bullseye pistol, and black and white movies. Subscribe to the blog. Henry Sapoznik...
The Nigunim Community Chorus, directed by Achi Ben Shalom, is dedicated to the music of the Jewish people from around the world. The repertoire is varied, and includes contemporary and classic songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English, arranged for choral singing in three- and four-part harmony. We meet on...
Hear a different rare Yiddish song every week, sung by a native speaker
Fall 2020: First-year Yiddish, First Quarter (AMELANG 140A, JEWISHST 104A), with Jon Levitow 09/14 - 11/20/2020, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 1-2pm. https://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/courses/2020-2021-jewishst-104a Stanford University's Taube Center for Jewish Studies offers an interdisciplinary program for the study and understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics, and history. Occasionally there are...
Workers Circle's online Yiddish language program incorporates the latest technologies in distance learning — classes are conducted with face-to-face chat, whiteboard, and audio and video capabilities. Every session is recorded, giving students the flexibility to review the material at their own pace.
College-level Yiddish language courses at three levels.
Links to resources for learning about and playing klezmer music, generally and for specific instruments, collected by Jim Rebhan.
Illustrated Yiddish proverbs, aphorisms, insults, curses, and other folk sayings, in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation
Bi-weekly magazine about Jewish life in Northern California, as well as this event calendar.
Learn the basics of Yiddish conversation; no Yiddish experience necessary. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's Associate Artistic Director Motl Didner offers lessons brought to life by a vibrant cast of fictional characters. The third season of NYTF's 15-Minute Yiddish (more or less), Tuesdays, 10am Pacific Time has concluded its fifteenth and...
YAAANA, The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, provides Yiddish education and cultural programming to the San Diego area and beyond. Online programs include Yiddish language courses at all levels, programs for children, Yiddish Teachers' Committee, and a leyenkrayz (reading circle, in Yiddish).
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