Intensive Weekend for Advanced-Intermediate and Advanced Students May 24 – May 27, 2019

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, now under the auspices of Bard College  and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for many years and served as the Academic Director of that program for five 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. 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.