Save the Date for Yiddish Grammar Workshops with Katerina Kuznetsova

Save the Date for our movie screening “The Yidishe Gauchos” by Mark Freeman.

  In this two-part workshop, we will cover all the essential topics regarding Yiddish nouns. You will get a clear picture of how they behave and why. We will dig into theory and see how it helps us in practice.

Save the date for an interesting book talk “Letters to My Father” by Kathleen A. Balgley.

Save the Date for Conversational Yiddish For Beginners with Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh

  All these oyf, bay, keyn, fun… So short but extremely important words that help us put the words in a phrase together. Prepositions usually have many meanings and can be used in different contexts. We will focus on the ones that are most of all confusing for English speakers, i.e. the ones that sound […]

  Verbs are probably the trickiest part of speech in Yiddish. Apart from three times, each of them having its own peculiarities, there are in/separable prefixes (arayngeyn – ikh gey arayn), participles (the ones that end with -dik but not just they), and such a unique thing as verb aspects. When you know all the […]

  This workshop is a continuation of the workshop on Yiddish nouns, but can be taken separately as well. In this workshop, you will learn the declination of adjectives in different cases and genders, what is a basic form of an adjective and when to use it, what happens when you put an adjective after […]

Save the Date for our Yiddish Shmueskrayz with Tamara Gleason Freidberg

  In this intensive workshop on Yiddish syntax we will focus on the word order. The rule that every Yiddish student learns in the very beginning is that “a verb stands on the second place in a sentence.” But in practice there are more nuances to it. There are “zero words” that come first but […]

Save the Date for our fundraiser, with the participation of our talented musicians Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom.

Save the Date for a Summit of Yiddishists representing the West Coast! If you are interested in coming to the summit, please e-mail us at info@yiddishland.ca or call 858-220-2992.