Pedagogy

“Lviv Ghetto: Space and Everyday Life” is a digital project that marks the locations of everyday life in the ghetto.

Mar 31, 2026

For there to be a Yiddish-speaking community at Oberlin, someone needed to teach the community Yiddish. It seemed that that someone, despite my inexperience and uncertainty, would need to be me.

Mar 18, 2026

Reporting from Yiddishland: reflections of a student at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library’s immersion program.

Mar 12, 2026

Ready for some fun af der zun? In geveb is proud to gather the programs that allow you to do everything from dusting off your conversational Yiddish to parsing Yiddish texts. 

Mar 05, 2026

A roundup of new and continuing Yiddish culture and klezmer festivals and series around the world.

Mar 05, 2026

I stumbled backwards into the topic of tkhines and almost accidentally ended up on a yearlong (or really, year-plus) study of Yiddish-language women’s prayers. It was only then, after I’d already submitted the paper and the art piece and the final reflection, that I decided it might be time to actually learn some of the language I’d been studying around for more than twelve months.

Feb 23, 2026

Over the past fifteen years, I have purchased over thirty Hasidic games and tested them out with various groups of Yiddish learners to find ones that work most effectively in different contexts and varying levels of classes.

Jan 26, 2026

In August 2025 YIVO opened its new Learning and Media Center, a learning lab for visiting student and adult groups. This new initiative transforms YIVO’s space into a more accessible museum, as befits its desire for deeper public engagement.

Jan 21, 2026

Occupations Past and Present is a visual literacy curriculum drawing on Mayer Kirshenblatt’s images of eastern European Jewish life to teach general (not only Jewish) grade school audiences how to relate to, ask questions of, and learn from images.

Dec 01, 2025

Working with authentic material from Yiddish scientific and technical textbooks enables teachers to sharpen students’ grammatical and lexical awareness and to highlight how Yiddish functioned beyond its traditional literary boundaries.

Nov 17, 2025