Fall Yiddish Class Registration Now Open

YIVO Fall Yiddish Classes
All classes will be held at the YIVO Institute, 15 W. 16th St., NYC, in the third floor conference room.

Elementary Yiddish
Eve Jochnowitz
THURSDAYS, OCTOBER 10TH THROUGH DECEMBER 19TH, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM (10 sessions)

Eve Jochnowitz is a Yiddish instructor, and lecturer in Jewish Culinary History at Living Traditions Klezkamp. She recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography at New York University. She blogs in English and Yiddish at inmolaraan.blogspot.com and is the co-host with Rukhl Schaechter Ejdelman of Est Gezunterheyt!, a cooking show in Yiddish. She is the translator, annotator, and adapter of the forthcoming YIVO publication, Fania Lewando’s Vegetarian Cookbook, originally published in Vilna in 1938.

Intermediate Yiddish
Paula Teitelbaum
MONDAYS, OCTOBER 7TH THROUGH DECEMBER 9TH, 6:30-8:30 PM (10 sessions)

Paul Teitelbaum was born and raised in a Yiddish-speaking home in post-war Wroclaw. After immigrating to the United States in 1967, Paula became actively involved in New York City’s Yiddish-speaking circles. During her professional career Paula has taught Yiddish as well as Spanish and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESL) in a variety of settings, including college, and pre-K through high school and adult education classes. Using her TESOL background Paula has applied some of the most successful
teaching methods into her Yiddish classrooms.

Advanced Yiddish
Alyssa (Khane) Masor
TUESDAYS, OCTOBER 8TH THROUGH DECEMBER 10TH, 6:30-8:30 PM (10 sessions)

Alyssa Masor received a PhD in Yiddish Literature from Columbia University in 2011. Her specialties are neo-Hasidism in Yiddish Literature and contemporary Hasidic culture. She has taught at Columbia University, Yeshiva University, the Center for Jewish History and YIVO. She lives with her Yiddish-speaking family in Boro Park, Brooklyn.

Cost: $275 for YIVO members (Join today for $54!) · $300 for non-members