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This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for fall Beginner II students.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for students who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

Join us for a survey of the greatest Yiddish literary works written in the late 19th and early 20th century, open to students of all levels.

YIVO sound archivist Lorin Sklamberg provides a window into the Yiddish music recorded in Berlin in 1933-38.

This weekly standard class covers the alef-beys and grammar, vocabulary, and conversational basics. It is for those who are new to the Yiddish language or would like a review.

This weekly standard class enhances listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for spring Intermediate II students.

This weekly standard class develops listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. It is primarily for fall Beginner III students.

Throughout his life, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1899-1986), arguably the most important Latin American writer of the twentieth century, found inspiration in Jewish themes and motifs. Through in-depth analysis of a selection of Borges’s stories, essays, poetry, and lectures, this course examines his Judeophilia and the reaction it received from his contemporaries.

Conducted in English, this seminar will teach Yiddish songs and chants to adults. Parents, grandparents, relatives, friends, and educators who want to bring Yiddish into the world of young children (or to enrich one's own inner child!) are encouraged to register.

Join YIVO Sound Archivist Lorin Sklamberg for a heymish springtime singing circle surveying Yiddish folk, theater and art songs drawn from over 30 years of collecting.