
Thursdays, starting on October 27, 2022 and ending on December 1, 2022.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. PT
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. CT
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. GMT
6 sessions in total,
Online via Zoom
Yiddish for Beginners II
with Arturo
Kerbel
This course is a continuation of Arturo’s previous course of Yiddish for Beginners. Previous students and new students are welcome to attend to practice newly-learned alef beys.
Cost: $25 per session or 6 sessions for $120
Where: Online via Zoom
Arturo Kerbel: He is a clinical psychologist (U Iberoamericana, Mexico), cognitive neuroscientist (UCL, King’s College London), and lifelong Yiddish activist. He led a student group resisting the exclusion of Yiddish from the school curriculum, received a grant from the Abraham Golomb Fund at age 14, and from the Ashkenazi Community at age 16, to continue with the fight. He founded Idishe Shtub Mx, a group of young Yiddish activists offering lessons and other cultural activities. He is the current coordinator of Yiddish House London, an informal organization planning Yiddish trips for young people around Europe, Yiddish lessons, Jewish holiday celebrations, and outreach projects in Jewish communities in Lithuania and Belarus.