A Skirball Academy Class
Mikhl Yashinsky
Beginners Yiddish III
Lomir Shmuesn (Let’s Chat)
In Beginners’ Yiddish III, you’ll continue acquiring the building blocks of conversation, including ways to describe activities and the world around us mit a yidishn tam (with a Jewish flavor). You will take part in lively discussions to practice your growing language skills and discover further treasures of Yiddish culture—film, story, song and more. All class materials were created by the instructor, drawing on his work coauthoring the Yiddish language textbook In eynem.
No knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet is required, as all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. This course is open to anyone with a bisele experience in the language.
Tuesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 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, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
October 21, 28, November 4, 18, 25, December 9
$220 | $150 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
In Beginners’ Yiddish III, you’ll continue acquiring the building blocks of conversation, including ways to describe activities and the world around us mit a yidishn tam (with a Jewish flavor). You will take part in lively discussions to practice your growing language skills and discover further treasures of Yiddish culture—film, story, song and more. All class materials were created by the instructor, drawing on his work coauthoring the Yiddish language textbook In eynem.
No knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet is required, as all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. This course is open to anyone with a bisele experience in the language.
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.