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Yiddish for Beginners with Zach Golden
In this beginner Yiddish course, students will build foundational reading, writing, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The course begins with printed and cursive letters, greetings, and present-tense verbs, then introduces numbers, colors, dates, times, songs, poems, games, and aspects of Yiddish culture.
When: Sundays, October 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15, 2026
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PT / 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT / 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost:
Early Bird: $180 if registered before Sunday, September 27, 2026
Regular Admission: $220
One Class: $35
Teacher: Zach Golden
Zach Golden was Deputy Yiddish Editor of the Forward (Forverts) from 2022 to 2024. He was ordained as a rabbi at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2020 and is co-founder of Der Nister Downtown Jewish Center in Downtown Los Angeles.