Intensive Weekend for Advanced-Intermediate and Advanced Students
March 4 – March 7, 2016
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, March 4, 2016 through Monday, March 7, 2 P.M.
Shorter Friday to Sunday evening option available. Register by January 27.
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 to RDU airport (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 27, 2016.
Dr. Sheva Zucker has taught Yiddish language and literature on five continents. She is the author of the textbookYiddish: 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, now under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for many years and is currently the Academic Director of that program. 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. 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, March 4, 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
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 Sholem Aleichem, Lamed Shapiro, Avrom Karpinovitsh, and Yente Serdatzky.
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