SPrING 2024 Yiddish Classes
Chicago YIVO Society is pleased to offer spring sessions of our three Yiddish classes online starting in May. Each class meets 8 times. Tuition is $140 (or a reduced rate of $100.) Class descriptions can be found below, and you can register here.
These classes will be held online via Zoom and require stable internet access, facility with online technology, and the textbooks mentioned below.
Yiddish Class, Beginner 3
Thursdays
6:30pm - 8:00pm CST
8 sessions
May 2 through
June 27, 2024
(no class Jun 13 for Shvues)
This is a fun, serious, and dynamic group course using the newly published In Eynem textbook, which encourages conversation, self-expression, and contemporary usage. We will start with a review of chapter 3, with an expectation that students have good control of reading, writing, present tense verb conjugations, and numbers.
Anye Koyfmentsh has been learning Yiddish for 20 years, and teaching for 5. She trained as a Yiddish teacher through the Yiddish Book Center, and as a Talmud teacher through Svara. As an enthusiastic member of a vibrant Yiddish speaking community, she is eager to include more people so they can make their own friendships, art, and relationships with Yiddish. She translated the Yiddish novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, which will be released in 2024.
Yiddish class, advanced beginner 3
Tuesdays
6:30pm - 8:00pm CST
8 sessions
May 7 through
July 2, 2024
(no class June 11 for Shvues)
This is a continuation of the Advanced Beginners course that ran in the fall. We will explore more conversation, literature, and music, and continue our study in In Eynem, with a review of chapter 5.
Anye Koyfmentsh has been learning Yiddish for 20 years, and teaching for 5. She trained as a Yiddish teacher through the Yiddish Book Center, and as a Talmud teacher through Svara. As an enthusiastic member of a vibrant Yiddish speaking community, she is eager to include more people so they can make their own friendships, art, and relationships with Yiddish. She translated the Yiddish novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, which will be released in 2024.
Yiddish class, intermediate 3
Wednesdays
6:30pm - 8:00pm CST
8 sessions
May 1 through
June 26, 2024
(no class June 12 for Shvues)
This is a continuation of the Advanced Beginners course that ran in the fall. We will be using Sheva Zucker's book Yiddish: An Introduction to the language, literature, and culture, Volume I, starting at chapter 12B, and Sholem Aleichem's Motl Peyse dem Khasns, in the learner's edition.
Benna grew up speaking Yiddish at home with her mother. She has studied Yiddish at the YIVO Intensive Yiddish Summer Program and, most recently, at the Maison de la Culture Yiddish in Paris. She has attended the annual Yugntruf Yidish Vokh every year since she was two. And she has has previously taught Beginner and Intermediate Yiddish for Yiddish Chicago.
Tuition
Tuition rates for all courses are below. You will receive a link to make a payment at the time you complete registration, or you can pay here.
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$140 full tuition
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$100 reduced tuition
We also offer the Khane-Faygl Turtletaub Memorial Scholarship to cover full tuition for one student in need every semester. To apply for the scholarship, please email yiddishchicago@gmail.com
No student is turned away for inability to pay, to arrange an alternative payment plan please write to us at yiddishchicago@gmail.com.
Course Materials
Course materials are referenced in class descriptions. An English-Yiddish dictionary is always strongly recommended, but not required. A great option is the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary edited by Gitl Schaechter-Vishwanath and Paul Glaser.
Please be in touch with the instructors for guidance about prerequisites and how to prepare to join a class.