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This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Beginner I students.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Intermediate I students.

Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Rumania, Vol. II. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1980. (H) Yidn in Ukrayne [Jews in the Ukraine], Vol. I. New York: Society to Eternalize the Memory of Ukrainian Jews, 1961. Yidn in Ukrayne [Jews in the Ukraine], Vol. II. New York: Society to Eternalize the Memory of Ukrainian ...

YIVO Head Librarian and Acting Chief Archivist Lyudmila Sholokhova delivered a presentation at the 10th Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies in Paris.

On Friday, August 1, 32 students graduated from the 47th Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Culture. The siem (graduation ceremony) opened with remarks by Dr. Sheva Zucker, the program’s Academic Director, and Chava Lapin, YIVO board member and instructor in the program. Guest speaker Kalman Weiser (York ...

This broadcast from February 21, 1965 presents excerpts from two papers delivered at YIVO’s annual conference, which had taken place the month before: 1. "Variety of Functions of the Yiddish Adjective," a paper delivered by Professor Uriel Weinreich at a session of the Linguistic Circle, about certain cases of the ...

This is the third post in a series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College. The program, which was established in 1968, is in its 47th year. This year’s session runs from June 23 – August 1, 2014. 

by JENNIFER YOUNG

Every summer since 1968, YIVO’s Uriel Weinreich Summer Program has welcomed students of all ages and backgrounds to New York City, united in the common goal of immersing themselves in Yiddish language, literature, and culture. Our 38 students this year come from places such as France; China; and Boro Park, Brooklyn; as well as from Poland, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and Israel, and range in age from 17 to 74. This year, for the first time, the program is being held right here at YIVO, giving students even more opportunity to get to know YIVO, and for us to get to know them.

We began this past week by welcoming just our Elementary class, helping to ease the transition from their languages of daily use to a complete Yiddish immersion. One student told me that her teacher had assured her that within a few weeks, she would be dreaming in Yiddish. “Dreaming in Yiddish, can you imagine?” the student said to me. “Right now I’m just dreaming of dreaming in Yiddish!” Our faculty for the Elementary classes include Paula Teitelbaum, a native Yiddish speaker from Poland and a veteran YIVO Yiddish teacher; Sarah Ponichtera, a 2004 graduate of the summer program who now works as an archivist at the Center for Jewish History; and Eve Jochnowitz, also an alum, who runs our Elementary Yiddish classes during the year. Sheva Zucker, also a senior YIVO faculty member, joins us this year as academic advisor, meeting with the students individually and helping to tailor the program to match their needs.

This is the second post in a series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College. The program, which was established in 1968, is in its 47th year. This year’s session runs from June 23 – August 1, 2014. How I Invented My Own ...

This is the first of series about alumni of YIVO’s intensive summer program in Yiddish, offered by YIVO and Bard College. The program, which was established in 1968, is in its 47th year. This year’s session runs from June 23 – August 1, 2014.