In-person classes (held at the Paris Yiddish Center)
Hours : 9:00-10:30 and 11:00-12:30 (Paris time)
Two Levels Offered
Level 1 (Beginners)
Annick Prime Margules and Nadia Déhan Rotschild
Level 2
Annick Prime Margules and Nadia Déhan Rotschild
Classes on Zoom
Hours : 15:30-17:00 and 18:00-19:30 (Paris time)
Five levels offered
Level 1 (Beginners)
30 class sessions; 90 minutes per session (45 hours total)
Module Zoom01
15:30-17:00 (fifteen 90-minute sessions) with Sonia Pinkusowicz-Dratwa
18:00-19:30 (fifteen 90-minute sessions) with Karolina Szymaniak
Level 2
30 class sessions; 90 minutes per session (45 hours total)
Module Zoom02
15:30-17:00 (fifteen 90-minute sessions) with Leyzer Burko
18:00-19:30 (fifteen 90-minute sessions) with Daria Vakhrushova
Level 3
You can take both modules (thirty 90-minute sessions; 45 hours in total), or one module (fifteen 90-minute sessions; 22.5 hours in total)
Module Zoom03 A : 15:30-17:00 with Sharon Bar-Kochva
Module Zoom03 B : 18:00-19:30 with Reyze Turner
Level 4
You can take both modules (thirty 90-minute sessions; 45 hours in total), or one module (fifteen 90-minute sessions; 22.5 hours in total)
Module Zoom04 A : 15:30-17:00, with
– Natalia Krynicka (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) : The Relationship to the Body in Yiddish Literature
– Reyze Turner (Tuesday and Thursday) : Yiddish Grammar Through the Eyes of Historical Yiddish Grammarians
Module Zoom04 B : 18:00-19:30, with
– Sharon Bar-Kochva (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) : Refugees and Immigrants
– Leyzer Burko (Tuesday and Thursday) : Words, Idioms, and Sayings
Level 5
You can take both modules (thirty 90-minute sessions; 45 hours in total), or one module (fifteen 90-minute sessions; 22.5 hours in total)
Module Zoom05 A : 15:30-17:00, with
– Karolina Szymaniak (Monday, Wednesday; Friday together with Tal Hever-Chybowski) : Galician Women’s Autobiographies: Between Poetry and Prose
– Tal Hever-Chybowski (Tuesday, Thursday; Friday together with Karolina Szymaniak) : Avrom Reyzen’s Prose
Module Zoom05 B : 18:00-19:30, with
– Natalia Krynicka (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) : Ikh bin geven a mol a yingling: Questions of Gender Identity in Yiddish Literature
– Yitskhok Niborski (Tuesday and Thursday) : The Idiomatic Usage of Compound Verbs (Prefixes, Adverbial Complements, and Periphrastics)