Yiddish In Goles-Durham

There are still a few spaces left for Yiddish in Goles-Durham. If you are interested please register as soon as possible by contacting [email protected]

There are several partial scholarships available for full-time undergraduate or graduate students. In order to apply you must:

– be a real student (not a student in a Pilates class or even a Yiddish class)

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 (if booked sufficiently in advance) from New York, Boston, and other cities.

Minimun: 7 students
Maximun: 13 students

For information and registration: Contact Sheva Zucker
[email protected].
To see the tentative schedule: shevazucker.com
Indicate interest immediately.
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, currently under the auspices of Bard College and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for many years and is now also its Academic Director. 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. Teaching Yiddish is her greatest pleasure.