[Jewish] Fwd: YIDDISH CLASS

[Rachel Rubinstein]

Josh Price

Introduction to Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture

Wednesdays April 25, May 2, 16, 23, 30, June 6, 13

7:00 - 8:30 PM in the JCA Small Sanctuary



This class will serve as an introduction to Yiddish language, with the goal
of reading texts. Grammatical material will come largely from Uriel
Weinreich's College Yiddish and Dovid Katz's Grammar of the Yiddish
Language. In addition, this class will offer a broad sketch of Yiddish
literature and culture through discussion of primary sources in translation
and secondary sources in English.



Josh Price studied Yiddish literature and modern Jewish history at Yale. Now
he works as a fellow at the National Yiddish Book Center, overseeing various
digitization projects. This is a one-time opportunity as Josh will be
leaving the area this summer.



Below is a rough outline, subject to much change.



1             The Yiddish Alphabet; Differences with Hebrew; Orthographic
Traditions; Dialects; Component Languages / Shmeltsshprakh

2            College Yiddish text (henceforth CY); Nominative Case; Basic
syntax

              Pre-History of Yiddish: Benjamin Harshav Meaning of Yiddish 1;
Katz Words on Fire 1-2

3            CY; Accusative Case; Nominative Personal Pronouns; Present
Tense

              Old Yiddish literature: Katz 3-4; selections from Jean
Baumgarten Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature; Tsene-rene excerpts [in
translation]

4            CY; Dative Case; Personal Pronouns in all cases; Negation

              Hasidism: Katz 6; Roskies Bridge of Longing 2; Nakhmen
Sipurey-mayses

5            CY; Possessives; Past Tense; Numbers; Analytic Verbs

              Haskalah: Katz 7-8; Howe-Greenberg Treasury of Yiddish Stories
excerpts

6            CY; Other Tenses: Future, Conditional, Habitual Past,
Pluperfect Past, Future Perfect; Prefixed Verbs

              20th century: Katz 9; Chapters from David Shneer Soviet
Yiddish Culture; Tony Michels A Fire in Our Hearts; Harshavs' American
Yiddish Poetry (introduction and selections)

7            CY; Relative Pronouns; Periphrastic Verbs; Comparative &
Superlative Adjectives

              Postwar / Beyond: Katz 10-11; Jeffrey Shandler Adventures in
Yiddishland (selections)



Pre-registration is encouraged.  Contact Barbara Burkhart at  413-687-0316
or barbruth at comcast.net

Suggested donation:  $36.00










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Rachel Rubinstein
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
Dean of Academic Support and Advising
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5821
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