Intensive Advanced I&II Yiddish
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Tuition: $800 YIVO members: $640** Students: $400 (Must register with valid university email address) |
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This is a live, online course held twice weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 15 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. Students will be granted access to the class on Canvas after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.
Instructor: Miriam Trinh
Who should take this course?
This course is appropriate for those enrolled in level Daled in the 2021 Summer Program.
What topics will this class cover?
Based on a corpus of prose and poetry selected by the instructor, this course will study grammatical and stylistic issues, new and old.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide course materials digitally to students throughout the class.
Questions? Read our 2021 Fall Classes FAQ.
Miriam Trinh was born in Poland, grew up in Germany and immigrated to Israel after finishing High School. She completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Yiddish at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, obtained her Master's degree in Yiddish literature at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Strasbourg (France), her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has taught Yiddish language and literature since 1999, in Paris, Oxford, Strassbourg, Vilna, New York, Baltimore, Tel Aviv and is currently teaching Yiddish at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Miriam Trinh has published works in the field of Modern Yiddish Literature and especially on Holocaust literature. She is also engaged in translation from and into Yiddish.
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