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This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Beginner II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate I Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Join YIVO for a panel discussion with Ronald Robboy, Sonia Gollance, and Josh Kun, as they explore the remarkable influence of Latin American music and dance on the culture of Yiddish speaking communities in the United States.

This weekly conversational class covers grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students with some basic familiarity with spoken Yiddish.

This weekly conversational class is for students who already have some experience speaking in Yiddish, can hold a basic conversation, and want to take their self-expression to the next level.

This weekly class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for students who have completed Intermediate II Yiddish or equivalent coursework.

by ROBERTA NEWMAN

The Yiddish Academy library is looking for a new home and it needs one fast.

The 2,000-volume library is currently in a temporary storage space at Beyachad, the Jewish Community Center of Johannesburg, South Africa, but has been asked to vacate. “Many of the books are very valuable,” notes Cedric Ginsburg, a Yiddish Academy lecturer and activist. “Some were published in Vilna; some in South Africa. In fact, we have a pretty good coverage of South African Yiddish literature."

The library is only one project of the fledgling Yiddish Academy, a new organization first conceived in 2001 by translator and scholar Joseph Sherman (1934-2009) and Eli Goldstein, a businessman, who is today based in Johannesburg and Toronto. They started with Yiddish classes for a few students in 2003, and by 2006, the organization was stable enough to register as an official club.