Enjoy learning Yiddish Love and Erotic Vocabulary! This hybrid class will bring you nakhes and help you expand your vocabulary! Learn Yiddish, drink wine, and make new friends at Yiddishland and online. This class is part of the Yiddish in Transliteration course. It can be taken as part of the course or separately. Where: Yiddishland California, the class […]

Building on the success of Yiddish New York’s 2021 Klezathon, Tsvelf is a 12-hr Yiddish Music and Spoken Word Concert held via Zoom featuring artists from around the world. The concert will feature klezmer, Yiddish song, poetry, and more, in an effort to raise funds for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. All funds raised will go […]

Join our Lag B’omer celebration combined with Esther Meisarosh’s 5th birthday party! We will celebrate with a bonfire at La Jolla Shores by tower number 30. We will have some beverages, traditional potatoes for roasting, and some other bites, but this is a potluck celebration, so bring something to share. Where: La Jolla Shores Beach, at […]

Niki Jacobs Performance at JFEST This performance features The Ballad of Mauthausen, one of the most gorgeous pieces ever written about the Second World War. It is a collaboration between the Greek poet Iakovos Kambanellis, who was a survivor of Kamp Mauthausen, and Mikis Theodorakis, the famous Greek composer banned for his activism against social […]

Water Element Yoga in Yiddish with Tanya Yakovleva online session Sunday, May 29 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PST After this yoga class instructed in Yiddish with English translation, we will feel fluid, flexible, and calm. This vinyasa yoga class invites you to build strength in softness, flexibility & mobility. The slow and gentle nature of […]

Playwright/Actor/Dancer Yehuda Hyman’s new solo show, The Dancing Room is a theatre/dance performance weaving Jewish mysticism and memoir to illuminate the transcendent power of dance through a Jewish lens. The Dancing Room is directed by Obie-Award winning artist, Michael Leibluft. Yehuda weaves Hasidic dance steps his Polish father taught him, a tale about his teenage […]

Join us to practice your Yiddish and have a good time getting to know fellow Yiddish speakers! We will speak in mame-loshn about diverse topics, including conversation both as a group and in smaller cohorts. We will also try to solve a couple of riddles and learn some Yiddish expressions and sayings to enrich your repertoire. The […]

Did you know that Yiddish was taught in Mexican schools into the 21st century? In this 50 min session, we will explore diverse aspects of the rich history of Yiddish culture in Mexico. We will get to read, in English, some amazing Yiddish poems, and we will learn a couple of interesting sayings. The session […]

Join Yiddishland’s second farbrengen (open mic) on June 17. We will have an open mic (classical and popular music, poetry, monologues, stories, jokes, etc), accompanied by drinks. You do not have to be Jewish to participate. Please email us at info@yaaana.org if you would like to present something at the open mic and include a description or sample of […]

If you are already familiar with the alef-beys, then this is the course for you. We will follow the interdisciplinary approach to language learning and use different Yiddish textbooks. Through watching informative videos about famous figures in Yiddish culture, discussing films, and singing Yiddish songs, this course will cover all four areas of language learning: speaking, […]

This class for total beginners emphasizes spoken and written communication, and provides a basic introduction to Yiddish culture. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand basic Yiddish and express themselves. Through watching informative videos about famous figures in Yiddish culture, discussing films, and singing Yiddish songs, this course will cover […]

In this course, you will build on the grammatical knowledge acquired while attending YAAANA’s Beginner II class series or a similar Yiddish course. We will use different materials and repeat skills gained in the previous level such as conjugation in the past and future times. Students will gain knowledge of how to compare adjectives, to […]