First Semester Yiddish for Graduate Students
An introductory first-semester Yiddish course for graduate students focusing on speaking, listening, reading, and writing with an emphasis on cultural and historical context and research facilitation.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 1 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Read the Yiddish alphabet and write in Yiddish cursive
Express oneself in Yiddish at the sentence level in written and oral communications
Read short Yiddish texts in the present, past, and future tenses
Mobilize a vocabulary of 200+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe one’s family, the life of the student, travel plans, daily life, and different geographic centers of Yiddish cultural production
Name and describe major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century Yiddish culture
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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- Graduate/professional standing
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the class
Introduction to the Yiddish language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Emphasis on communication with attention to cultural and historical context. Includes tasks designed to facilitate Yiddish-related research.
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Topics
- Introduction to Yiddish language skills including speaking, listening, reading, and writing
- Yiddish communication within cultural and historical contexts
- Tasks facilitating Yiddish-related research
- Major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century Yiddish culture
Skills
- Reading the Yiddish alphabet and writing in Yiddish cursive
- Expressing oneself in Yiddish at the sentence level in written and oral communications
- Reading short Yiddish texts in present, past, and future tenses
- Mobilizing a vocabulary of over 200 Yiddish words for daily life and cultural contexts
- Naming and describing major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century Yiddish culture
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