Spring 2027

Second Semester Yiddish for Graduate Students

Second semester Yiddish for graduate students emphasizing proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing within cultural contexts.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sunny Yudkoff3.9/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Deploy Yiddish at the multi-sentence level in written and oral communications

  • Express opinions about authentic Yiddish texts, including contemporary newspaper articles and poetry selections from the twentieth century.

  • Mobilize a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words, including those terms necessary to describe time, weather, calendrical units, literature (children’s books, poetry, and the history of Yiddish publishing).

  • Be creative with language in past, present, future, imperative, and conditional tenses.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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GNS/​JEWISH 405

GNS/JEWISH 406

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 180
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 180

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Student experience

the class

Emphasis on proficiency in Yiddish through speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and on communication in cultural context.

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Topics

  • Yiddish language proficiency and cultural communication
  • Authentic Yiddish texts including newspapers and poetry

Skills

  • Deploying Yiddish in written and oral communications
  • Mobilizing a vocabulary of 400+ Yiddish words
  • Using Yiddish grammar across multiple tenses

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GNS/JEWISH 406 · Spring 2027

Second Semester Yiddish for Graduate Students

Recorded 2026-10-14
GNS/JEWISH 406 · Spring 2027

Second Semester Yiddish for Graduate Students

Recorded 2026-10-14
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