YIDDISH 2: BEGINNERS (ONLINE)

Online

Daytime

Language

Tuesdays 15:00-17:00 CET

10 sessions

Application

Application for reserve spot is open until 31 July.

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YIDDISH FOR BEGINNERS, SEMESTER 2 (ONLINE) 

Sholem-aleykhem! Welcome to Yiddish 2!

Learning Yiddish is an opportunity to connect with this rich Eastern European Jewish language and culture with its beautiful music and literature. This is a treasure trove that is just waiting to be discovered!

This Yiddish course is designed for participants, who are at a “Not-Quite Beginners” level of Yiddish, having studied Yiddish for at least one semester (see more information below under “Prior knowledge”.) 

We will start each lesson with some Yiddish conversation, which we will build up more and more as we go along. Then we will revise some of the grammar and vocabulary learned in the previous lesson. After that, we will work with our Yiddish textbook, read the reading material, the dialogues and the jokes there, learn new vocabulary and grammar and do some of the exercises in the book. And we will conclude every lesson with a Yiddish song.

The course is given in collaboration with International Yiddish Center Vilnius, Paideia – the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and Jiddischsällskapet i Stockholm.

Paideia folkhögskola also offers the online courses Yiddish 6 and Yiddish conversation (in Yiddish/Swedish) during the autumn semester of 2025. Please see more information under each course’s webpage.

 

Course structure

This will be an interactive online Yiddish course, which will include Yiddish conversation, working with a Yiddish textbook, reading, learning new grammar and vocabulary and doing various exercises, as well as some Yiddish songs. 

Participants will be expected to spend some time every week to work on their reading and writing, to learn the vocabulary and to revise the grammar covered in each class. 

Prior knowledge

The course is given in English.

This is a course designed for participants with some basic knowledge of Yiddish. Participants should be able to form simple sentences in the present tense and to read Yiddish in the Hebrew script.

To apply for this course, you need basic computer skills and knowledge of how to use the digital platform Zoom. The school offers Zoom manuals and a training opportunity before the start of the course.

Course literature

All course literature is not included in the course cost. You need to acquire the following book on your own: 

  • Yiddish, Volume 1″ (Sheva Zucker).  

You will receive more information about the course book that you purchase on your own, if you get accepted to the course.

About the teacher

Dr. Beruriah Wiegand is the Woolf Corob Lector in Yiddish at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA and MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies from Leo Baeck College, London, and a Ph.D. from University College London, with a thesis on Jewish mystical motifs in the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer. She has lectured on Bashevis’s works and on Yiddish poetry at major conferences around the world.

She is also a Yiddish poet and translator, who has published two bilingual collections of her poetry (Yiddish/English) with the H.Leyvik-farlag in Tel Aviv, as well as various translations from and into Yiddish.

Photo: The image is of a painting by Jean Hessel.

Frequently Asked Questions

Application

Application for reserve spot is open until 31 July.

APPLY HERE

Course information

Times

Tuesdays 15:00-17:00 CET

Course start

Tuesday 30 September

10 sessions

Teacher

Beruriah Wiegand

Application deadline

Thursday 31 July

Admission

The admission letter is sent via email approximately 2 weeks before the start of the course. Check your spam folder if you are missing information.

Costs

200 SEK to be paid via invoice or PayPal. Information about payments will be sent in the admission letter.

Miscellaneous

The course is given if a sufficient amount of participants apply. The profile courses are closed during some Jewish holidays and on bank holidays.

Contact

Paideia Folkhögskola

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