Intensive Weekend for Intermediate-Advanced and Advanced Students

February 13-February 16, 2015
Dr. Sheva Zucker will be offering an intensive Yiddish weekend for intermediate-advanced and advanced Yiddish students. This will be a total immersion experience with one of the foremost Yiddish teachers in America. The weekend will consist of grammar, conversation and readings from Yiddish literature. (The exact curriculum will be decided based on the applicants.)

When: Friday evening, February 13, 2015 through Monday, February 15, 2 P.M.
Shorter Friday to Sunday evening option available. Register by January 9.
Where: Durham, NC
Cost: $280 – Friday to Monday; $230 – Friday to Sunday.

Price includes the following meals: Friday night dinner
Breakfast: Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Bagel Plus lunch: Saturday and Sunday
Snack: Monday

Some home hospitality is available.
Reasonable hotel rates in nearby hotels.

There are very reasonably priced flights (if booked sufficiently in advance) from New York, Boston, and other cities.

Minimun: 6 students
Maximun: 13 students

For information and registration: Contact Sheva Zucker
[email protected].
Deadline January 9, 2015.
Sheva Zucker

Dr. Sheva Zucker has taught Yiddish language and literature on five continents. She is the author of the textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II. She has taught Yiddish and Yiddish Literature in the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for many years. She taught Yiddish and Jewish literature at Duke University. She served as the director of the Naomi Kadar International Yiddish Teacher Training Seminar held in Maryland in 2013 and 2011. Currently she is the Executive Director of the League for Yiddish and the editor of its magazine Afn Shvel. Her research and translations focus mostly on women in Yiddish literature. She was, for several years, the Translation Editor of the Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center. Teaching Yiddish is her greatest pleasure.

SCHEDULE
Friday afternoon, February 13 2015: Arrival
6:30 Shabes dinner.

Saturday
Breakfast
Reading of weekly Torah portion in Yiddish and discussion
Poetry/Reading handwriting

Lunch
Saturday afternoon: Yiddish Literature
Free time/Walk

Dinner

Evening Program: Scott Davis, publisher of Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers by Jacob Dinezon on Dinezon followed by a bilingual reading

Sunday
Breakfast
Grammar and Literature

Lunch
Grammar and Literature
Walk/Free time

Dinner
Evening Program: TBA
Film on Yiddish writer

Monday
Breakfast
Grammar and Literature
Departure 2 PM

Tentative readings include works by Rokhl Faygenberg, I.B. Singer, Tsvi Eisenman, Yosl Birshteyn and others
Schedule and program subject to change.