
A Skirball Academy Class
Mikhl Yashinsky
Beginners Yiddish
Section II
“Oy, eyne tsvey verter
(Oh, just a couple of words)”
A continuation of our first semester of beginners Yiddish, this class is also open to anyone with a bisele experience with the language. As well as introducing basic grammar and vocabulary, we will cover the building blocks of Yiddish conversation and culture, including ways to describe our families, homes, holidays, people and places, sights and sounds that form the tapestry of our lives.
Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet is NOT required as all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. Even as we practice speaking, we will discover treasures of Yiddish culture in film, story and song.
Tuesdays, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
February 25, March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8
$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 PM-8:00 PM
February 25, March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8
$220 | $150 Temple Emanu-El members
Free for Friends of Streicker
A continuation of our first semester of beginners Yiddish, this class is also open to anyone with a bisele experience with the language. As well as introducing basic grammar and vocabulary, we will cover the building blocks of Yiddish conversation and culture, including ways to describe our families, homes, holidays, people and places, sights and sounds that form the tapestry of our lives.
Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet is NOT required as all written texts will be transliterated into Latin characters. Even as we practice speaking, we will discover treasures of Yiddish culture in film, story and song.
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.