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A Skirball Academy Class

Mikhl Yashinsky

Yiddish for Beginners:

A Yiddish Vort

Experience the delight of the Yiddish word — on the page, on the screen and, especially, on your own lips. This introductory conversational Yiddish course, drawing on lively class discussion, art, film and song, is designed to help you speak freely as you discover and rediscover elements of both Yiddish language and culture without fear, but rather with much freyd (joy). No prior knowledge of Yiddish or the Hebrew alphabet is needed, as we will start fun breyshes (from Genesis) — at the very beginning — and all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. Students will finish with a good grounding in some fundaments of Yiddish grammar and conversation and gain confidence in producing idiomatic speech, as well as an understanding of some of the unique treasures of Yiddish civilization.

Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
October 29, November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 10

$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, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
October 29, November 12, 19, 26, December 3, 10

$220 | $150 Temple Emanu-El members

Free for Friends of Streicker 

Experience the delight of the Yiddish word — on the page, on the screen and, especially, on your own lips. This introductory conversational Yiddish course, drawing on lively class discussion, art, film and song, is designed to help you speak freely as you discover and rediscover elements of both Yiddish language and culture without fear, but rather with much freyd (joy). No prior knowledge of Yiddish or the Hebrew alphabet is needed, as we will start fun breyshes (from Genesis) — at the very beginning — and all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. Students will finish with a good grounding in some fundaments of Yiddish grammar and conversation and gain confidence in producing idiomatic speech, as well as an understanding of some of the unique treasures of Yiddish civilization.

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.

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