A Skirball Academy Class
Mikhl Yashinsky
Beginners Yiddish
A Yidish Vort (A Yiddish Word)
Discover or rediscover the Yiddish language and culture without fear but with true freyd (joy)!
This beginner’s conversational Yiddish course will draw on lively in-class discussion, art, film and song to help students learn to speak freely. By the end of the course, you will have a grounding in some fundamentals of Yiddish grammar, the confidence to produce your own idiomatic speech and familiarity with some of Yiddish culture’s unique treasures.
No knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet or proficiency in Yiddish is required as we will be starting fun breyshes (from Genesis)—that is to say, at the very beginning!
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
October 21, 28, November 4, 18, 25, December 9
$220 | $150 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
Mikhl Yashinsky is a Harvard-trained writer, singer/actor and teacher. Author of The Gospel According to Chaim, the first new full-length Yiddish-language drama produced professionally in the US in many decades, he performed in the Yiddish-language Fiddler on the Roof, Amid Falling Walls and The Sorceress and made his Carnegie Hall début singing in the Holocaust memorial concert “We Are Here.” He has also taught Yiddish at Columbia, University of Michigan, and Tel Aviv University and coauthored an award-winning textbook.
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
October 21, 28, November 4, 18, 25, December 9
$220 | $150 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
Discover or rediscover the Yiddish language and culture without fear but with true freyd (joy)!
This beginner’s conversational Yiddish course will draw on lively in-class discussion, art, film and song to help students learn to speak freely. By the end of the course, you will have a grounding in some fundamentals of Yiddish grammar, the confidence to produce your own idiomatic speech and familiarity with some of Yiddish culture’s unique treasures.
No knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet or proficiency in Yiddish is required as we will be starting fun breyshes (from Genesis)—that is to say, at the very beginning!
Mikhl Yashinsky is a Harvard-trained writer, singer/actor and teacher. Author of The Gospel According to Chaim, the first new full-length Yiddish-language drama produced professionally in the US in many decades, he performed in the Yiddish-language Fiddler on the Roof, Amid Falling Walls and The Sorceress and made his Carnegie Hall début singing in the Holocaust memorial concert “We Are Here.” He has also taught Yiddish at Columbia, University of Michigan, and Tel Aviv University and coauthored an award-winning textbook.