Yiddish and Translation, taught by Professor Gabriella Safran at Stanford University. To be offered in Fall 2024, in-person. Yiddish, a historic language of Ashkenazic Jews, is known as "Taytsh," literally the language of translation. In this class, we learn about the histories and theories of translation into and out of...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area / Santa Clara County
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...
The Yiddish Book Center is a nonprofit organization working to recover, celebrate, and regenerate Yiddish and modern Jewish literature and culture. Site has extensive resources on language, literature, and more.
Meets most Wednesday nights, 7:30-9:00pm, led by Karen K. Bergen. Repertoire is mainly Yiddish songs, with some Ladino, Hebrew, and Russian songs mixed in for spice. At least three performances a year. Songs are taught so new members can be successful even if they don't speak Yiddish or read music....
Yiddish Choruses, Singers and Song Leaders / Santa Clara County
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 beginner and intermediate levels. Teacher: Julia Koifman Julia Koifman studied Slavic and German Studies in Berlin and Moscow, as well...
Throughout the year, YIVO offers courses in Yiddish language and electives in Jewish history and culture that are open to the general public. In Fall 2024, in addition to electives in English and Yiddish, YIVO is offering 4 levels of beginning Yiddish, 4 levels of intermediate Yiddish, 3 levels of...
Yankl Levitow teaches Yiddish language and literature classes in the South Bay and Santa Cruz. Learn more at his website. In 2024-25, he is offering the following. Contact Yankl Levitow directly for more info. Stanford University: Yiddish Quarters 1-3, Year 1, are currently scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays Fall 2024...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Language Teachers and Translators
Duolingo Yiddish, released in April 2021, is an online Yiddish course encompassing 70 sections called “skills,” with each skill featuring five levels. The 350 levels have three to six lessons each. With every lesson requiring at least five to seven minutes, the roughly 1,300 lessons will take a minimum of...
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. Sessions are on Zoom in EST and are...
Yiddish learning and conversation group meets Wednesdays 10:30-11:30am, except holidays outdoors at the JCC East Bay in Berkeley. No charge. Kum un redt a bisl Yidish mit unz. Come join us as we shmues. Everyone is welcome who has an interest in Yiddish, whether remembering only a few words or being fluent,...
Enter an English word to find its Yiddish equivalent, or a Yiddish word in transliteration or in alef beys to find its English definition. Links Yiddish blogs written by Sholem Berges and Noam Stariks. A few tables of Yiddish grammar.
An ongoing series on conversational and written Yiddish presented in the Jewish and Roman script along with a study of East European Jewish culture and history. Meets Fridays 3-4:30pm via Zoom. The class is filled now and there are no plans to accept new students. If you want to speak...
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Classes Online / San Francisco
Committee for Yiddish of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto presents a variety of language and culture classes, currently all on Zoom: Yiddish Language Classes: Beginning, Beginner-Plus, Intermediate, Intermediate-Plus, Advanced Yiddish Conversation: Beginner and Intermediate Reading Circle (Leyenkrayz): Participants will read and discuss humorous short stories in Yiddish from the...
The Yiddish Book Center is presenting online Yiddish language classes for beginners, using the Center's Award-winning Yiddish textbook, In Eynem. Running for twelve weeks, these level 1 and level 4 classes offer an in-depth introduction to Yiddish language and cover all aspects of learning, including oral and written communication, grammar,...
Occasional Yiddish literature in translation classes led by Loretta Denner will resume once we can meet in person again.
Yiddish Classes in (or online from) the Bay Area, Yiddish Language and Culture – Informal Learning / Sonoma County
This site is a collection of stories about, lyrics for, and links to recordings of Yiddish Penny Songs, which are tenement song versions of American theatre and variety show songs, 1895-1925. Their sheet music sold for a penny, hence the name. The collection includes Yiddish Ragtime and Yiddish songs of...
Sheva Zucker's blog with one poem each week in Yiddish and in English translation