Summer 2024 Yiddish Class
Chicago YIVO Society is pleased to offer a summer term of our beginner course online for 12 weeks. Tuition is $200 (or a reduced rate of $135.) Class description can be found below, and you can register here.
These classes will be held online via Zoom and require stable internet access, facility with online technology, and the textbooks mentioned below.
Yiddish Class, Beginner 4
Thursdays
6:30pm - 8:00pm CST
12 sessions
July 11 through
September 26, 2024
This is a fun, serious, and dynamic group course using the newly published In Eynem textbook, which encourages conversation, self-expression, and contemporary usage. We will start at the beginning of chapter 5, with an expectation that students have good control of reading, writing, present tense verb conjugations, basic word order, and numbers.
Anye Koyfmentsh has been learning Yiddish for 20 years, and teaching for 5. She trained as a Yiddish teacher through the Yiddish Book Center, and as a Talmud teacher through Svara. As an enthusiastic member of a vibrant Yiddish speaking community, she is eager to include more people so they can make their own friendships, art, and relationships with Yiddish. She translated the Yiddish novel Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, which will be released in 2024.
Tuition
Tuition rates for all courses are below. You will receive a link to make a payment at the time you complete registration, or you can pay here.
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$200 full tuition
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$135 reduced tuition
We also offer the Khane-Faygl Turtletaub Memorial Scholarship to cover full tuition for one student in need every semester. To apply for the scholarship, please email yiddishchicago@gmail.com
No student is turned away for inability to pay, to arrange an alternative payment plan please write to us at yiddishchicago@gmail.com.
Course Materials
Course materials are referenced in class descriptions. An English-Yiddish dictionary is always strongly recommended, but not required. A great option is the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary edited by Gitl Schaechter-Vishwanath and Paul Glaser.
Please be in touch with the instructors for guidance about prerequisites and how to prepare to join a class.