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Class starts Sep 21 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2025] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday Morning)

Class starts Oct 5 12:30pm-2:00pm

[FALL2025] Beginner I Yiddish (Early Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Sep 8 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2025] Advanced I Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Sep 8 6:30pm-8:00pm

[FALL2025] Beginner II Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Sep 8 6:30pm-8:00pm

[FALL2025] Beginner II Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Sep 9 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2025] Intermediate IV Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Sep 9 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2025] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Autobiographical Writing in Yiddish

Class starts Sep 9 6:00pm-7:30pm

[FALL2025] Beginner III Yiddish (In-person)

Wednesday, Dec 17 | 7:00pm

A Very Jewish Christmas: Jesus in Modern Jewish Literature

Class starts Sep 18 11:00am-12:30pm

[FALL2025] Beginner III Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Sep 18 3:00pm-4:30pm

[FALL2025] Advanced I Yiddish (Thursday)

Thursday, Dec 18 | 7:00pm

Swedishkayt: YidLife Crisis in Stockholm

Sunday, Dec 21 | 3:00pm

Hanukkah Concert 2025

Class starts Jan 4 4:00pm-5:30pm

[WY2026] Hitting the Road with Ester-Rokhl

Class starts Jan 5 11:00am-12:30pm

[WY2026] Alefbeys Workshop

Class starts Jan 5 1:00pm-2:30pm

[WY2026] An Introduction to Chaim Grade

Class starts Jan 5 4:00pm-5:30pm

[WY2026] Tradition and Innovation in Modern Yiddish Poetry: The Case of Dovid Hofshteyn (1889-1952)

Class starts Jan 6 9:00am-10:15am

[WP2026] An Open Ghetto Next Door to Treblinka

Class starts Jan 6 10:45am-12:00pm

[WP2026] The Wandering Jew in Yiddish Literature

Class starts Jan 6 12:00pm-1:15pm

[WP2026] The Jews of Mexico

Class starts Jan 6 1:00pm-2:15pm

[WP2026] American Jews, Communism, and Espionage

Class starts Jan 6 2:30pm-3:45pm

[WP2026] The Shtetl

Class starts Jan 6 4:00pm-5:15pm

[WP2026] Jews and Revolution

Class starts Jan 6 6:30pm-7:45pm

[WP2026] Photography and Jewishness

Class starts Jan 7 9:00am-10:15am

[WP2026] Two Revolutionaries

Class starts Jan 7 1:30pm-2:45pm

[WP2026] Émigré Jews and Film Noir

Class starts Jan 7 2:00pm-3:30pm

[WY2026] Creative Writing in Yiddish

Class starts Jan 11 6:00pm-7:30pm

[WY2026] The Radical Peretz

Monday, Jan 12 | 1:00pm

The Fall of the Weimar Republic

Monday, Jan 12 | 6:00pm

2026 Summer Program Information Session

Class starts Jan 13 12:00pm-1:30pm

[WY2026] YIVO Luminaries in their Own Words

Wednesday, Jan 14 | 1:00pm

Yiddish: A Global Culture

Thursday, Jan 15 | 1:00pm

Dancing Modernity: Popular Yiddish Music in Interwar Poland and Lithuania

Class starts Jan 18 2:00pm-3:30pm

[WY2026] The Art of the Yiddish Monologue

Class starts Jan 20 6:00pm-7:30pm

[WY2026] Yiddish Songs and Chants for Children

Wednesday, Jan 28 | 1:00pm

2026 Summer Program Information Session

Thursday, Jan 29 | 6:00pm

Holocaust Remembrance Today - A Living Responsibility: A Panel Discussion in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Between Life and Death: Stories of Rescue During the Holocaust" at the United Nations

Thursday, Feb 5 | 10:00am

2026 Summer Program Information Session

Sunday, Feb 8 | 11:00am

2026 Summer Program Information Session - Advanced Levels

Class starts Feb 17 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Feb 17 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Tuesday)

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate II Yiddish

Class starts Feb 17 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Autobiographical Writing in Yiddish

Class starts Feb 18 10:00am-11:30am

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Wednesday)

Class starts Feb 18 6:30pm-8:00pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (In-person)

Class starts Feb 19 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Feb 19 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Thursday)

Class starts Feb 22 10:00am-11:30am

[SPR2026] Intermediate IV Yiddish

Class starts Feb 22 10:30am-12:00pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate I Yiddish

Class starts Feb 22 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced Topics in Yiddish Literature & Grammar: Writers Writing about Writers

Class starts Feb 22 1:00pm-2:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner I Yiddish (Sunday)

Class starts Feb 22 2:00pm-3:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced IV Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Feb 22 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (Sunday)

Class starts Feb 22 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday Afternoon)

Class starts Feb 22 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced IV Yiddish (Sunday Evening)

Class starts Feb 23 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Advanced II Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Feb 23 1:30pm-3:00pm

[SPR2026] Advanced I Yiddish (Monday)

Class starts Feb 23 6:30pm-8:00pm

[SPR2026] Beginner III Yiddish (In-person)

Tuesday, Feb 24 | 7:00pm

Leo Zeitlin and the Music of His World

Monday, Mar 2 | 1:00pm

Educating for an Uncertain Future in Interwar Poland

Class starts Mar 5 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Intermediate III Yiddish

Class starts Mar 8 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner II Yiddish (Sunday Morning)

Class starts Mar 8 12:00pm-1:30pm

[SPR2026] The World of Eastern European Jewish Migrants

Class starts Mar 8 3:00pm-4:30pm

[SPR2026] The Art of the Yiddish Feuilleton

Class starts Mar 8 6:00pm-7:30pm

[SPR2026] The Life and Thought of Hillel Zeitlin

Class starts Mar 9 11:00am-12:30pm

[SPR2026] Beginner IV Yiddish (Monday)

Monday, Apr 6 | 1:00pm

Klezmer and Other Displaced Musics in America

Thursday, Apr 16 | 1:00pm

The Cantorial “Golden Age” in America

Thursday, Apr 23 | 7:30pm

Tuesday, May 5 | 1:00pm

Yiddish Theater, George Gershwin, and the Birth of an American Sound

Monday, May 18 | 7:00pm

Khantshe in Amerike — An Operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky

Trip starts June 22

2026 Study Tour of Lithuania & Poland

Trip starts July 12

2026 Study Tour of the Balkans

Trip starts Oct 12

2026 Study Tour of Northern Italy

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