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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Courtesy of Janis Wolkenbreit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Josh Price<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Introduction to Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Wednesdays April 25, May 2, 16, 23, 30, June 6, 13<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>7:00 - 8:30 PM in the JCA Small Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>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 <i>College Yiddish</i> and Dovid Katz's <i>Grammar of the Yiddish Language</i>. 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:black'>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. </span><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>This is a one-time opportunity as Josh will be leaving the area this summer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Below is a rough outline, subject to much change. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>1 The Yiddish Alphabet; Differences with Hebrew; Orthographic Traditions; Dialects; Component Languages / <i>Shmeltsshprakh</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>2 College Yiddish text (henceforth CY); Nominative Case; Basic syntax<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> Pre-History of Yiddish: Benjamin Harshav <i>Meaning of Yiddish</i> 1; Katz <i>Words on Fire</i> 1-2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>3 CY; Accusative Case; Nominative Personal Pronouns; Present Tense<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> Old Yiddish literature: Katz<i> 3-4</i>; selections from Jean Baumgarten <i>Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature</i>; <i>Tsene-rene</i> excerpts [in translation]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>4 CY; Dative Case; Personal Pronouns in all cases; Negation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> Hasidism: Katz 6; Roskies <i>Bridge of Longing</i> 2; Nakhmen <i>Sipurey-mayses</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>5 CY; Possessives; Past Tense; Numbers; Analytic Verbs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> Haskalah: Katz 7-8; Howe-Greenberg <i>Treasury of Yiddish Stories</i> excerpts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>6 CY; Other Tenses: Future, Conditional, Habitual Past, Pluperfect Past, Future Perfect; Prefixed Verbs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> 20th century: Katz 9; Chapters from David Shneer <i>Soviet Yiddish Culture</i>; Tony Michels <i>A Fire in Our Hearts</i>; Harshavs’ <i>American Yiddish Poetry</i> (introduction and selections)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>7 CY; Relative Pronouns; Periphrastic Verbs; Comparative & Superlative Adjectives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'> Postwar / Beyond: Katz 10-11; Jeffrey Shandler <i>Adventures in Yiddishland</i> (selections)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Pre-registration is encouraged. Contact Barbara Burkhart at 413-687-0316 or <a href="mailto:barbruth@comcast.net">barbruth@comcast.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Suggested donation: $36.00 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>