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W.C. Yiddish Classes
Major Yiddish Events
Yiddish Events Calendar
Workmen's Circle 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA 617-566-6281
**"dos yidishe kol" hert men ale mitvokh af radio-stantsye WUNR 1600 AM in bostoner gegnt fun 7:30-8:30 in ovnt - Tel: 617-730-8484
Ongoing Events
Every Sun., 7:00 P.M, Klezmer Jam, Brookline 617-566-6164
Every Sun., 2:30 P.M., Informal Yiddish Activities Committee (IAYC), Brookline 617-332-5758
Every Mon. and Wed., 7:00 P.M, Yiddish Language Classes (4 levels: beginner advanced), Brookline, 617-566-6281
Every Tues., 9:00 A.M., Yiddish Class, Danbury, CT 203-748-7339
Every Tues., 1:15 P.M., Salem Towers Yiddish Club, Malden, 781-322 6680
Every Wed., Noon, Yale-New Haven Yiddish Leyen Kreiz, New Haven, CT 203-288-8206
First Wed., Noon, Yiddish Tish Discussion Luncheon, Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 860-486-6332
Every Wed., 2:00 P.M., Interactive Lecture Series on Klezmer Music,
Belmont, 617-969-7100
Every Wed., 7:30 P.M., The
Yiddish Voice Radio Hour, On WUNR 1600 AM, Meyer,
Boston, 617-730-8484
Every Thurs., 7:00 P.M, Lexington Vinkl (Yiddish conversation group), Lexington 781-863-1326
2nd Thurs., 8:00 P.M., Workmen's Circle Yiddish Vinkl, Somerville. All levels of speakers welcome. Call Linda Gritz/Mike Katz 617-776-0448
3rd Thurs. , 7:30 P.M, Yiddish Conversation Group, Brookline 617-628-6320
Thurs. (Call, meets at dif. times), 7:30 P.M, Yiddish Sing, Informal sing-a long, Brookline, Call Mike or Linda at 617-625-8689
Every Thurs., 7:30 P.M, Yiddish Shmoozers, Yiddish Revival series, Cong. B'nai Sholom Newington, CT 860-667-2864
Fri., (2nd & 4th) 10:00 A.M, JCC Yiddish Shmooz, Providence,
RI 401-273-2833
March
13 Sat., Isle of Klezbos in Concert, Keshet Cabare, Temple Israel, Boston 617-524-9227 MA
April
7 Wed., Noon, Di Makhesheyfe, Yiddish Tish Discussion Luncheon, Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 860-486-6332
7-18 National Center for Jewish Films 13th Annual Festival, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 781-899 7044
11 Sun., 2:00 P.M., The Alexander Fiterstein Trio in Concert, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA 413-256-4900
16-18 "Letting Jews Be Jews" Film Weekend, Hosted by Ken Turan, LA Times Film Critic, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA Contact: 413-256-4900 ext 124
May
5 Wed., Noon, Di Makhesheyfe, Yiddish Tish Discussion Luncheon, Dodd Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 860-486-6332
EVENING YIDDISH CLASSES
Yiddish
Language Classes Begin at the Boston Workmen's Circle – all
levels Monday
Location:
Workmen’s Circle building - 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA
Class time: All classes are held from 7:30 – 9:00 pm
OUR CLASSES
Beginners: 11 Monday
evenings, beginning Sept. 18. This course teaches students Yiddish
reading, elementary grammar and basic conversation skills. It is
geared toward students who have little or no previous background. Students
who don’t know the Hebrew alphabet are encouraged to contact the
office prior to the start of class. Instructor: Harry Bochner.
Advanced Beginners: 12 Monday evenings,
beginning Sept. 24. This course is designed for
those who are already able to read simple Yiddish and who have familiarity
with basic grammar such as present, past and future tenses. Textbook and
supplementary texts, newspapers and music will be used to strengthen grammar,
facilitate conversational Yiddish, and to develop reading skills. Instructor:
Lillian Leavitt.
Intermediate: 12 Monday evenings,
beginning Sept. 24. This course will use vol. 2 of Sheva
Zucker’s textbook, readings by well-known authors, and the Forverts
to further students’ vocabulary and reading skills. Students will
also be encouraged to expand their comfort with speaking and understanding
conversational Yiddish. Instructor: Dovid Braun.
Advanced seminar, conducted solely in Yiddish:
12 Monday evenings, beginning Sept. 24. Come learn about Yiddish history,
literature and language from experts in the field, talking about their
specialties in Yiddish. Students should be able to speak and understand
Yiddish comfortably and read sophisticated texts on their own with the
aid of a dictionary. Instructors: Team-taught by David Braun,
Sholem Beinfeld and Iosif Lakhman.
OUR INSTRUCTORS:
Harry Bochner has
a PhD in linguistics from Harvard University. Harry has taught Yiddish
on and off for 15 years at BU extension, Harvard Hillel, privately, and
at the Workmen's Circle.
Lillian Shporer Leavitt,
a daughter of Shoah survivors, grew up speaking Yiddish and graduated from
the Bostoner Arbeter Ring Shule. She was a computer software trainer
for many years before transferring her teaching skills to Yiddish. She
has been teaching Yiddish at the Workmen's Circle, synagogues, and community
centers of Boston for the past dozen years.
David Braun has
taught Yiddish language and Yiddish studies at Harvard University, the
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Gratz College,
and at the intensive Yiddish summer programs of YIVO with Columbia University
and the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland).
Sholem Beinfeld is
Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis,
where he taught modern Jewish history. He has been a consultant for the
U.S. Holocaust Museum as well as a consultant on many projects related
to Holocaust history. He has published several translations from
Yiddish to English.
Iosif Lakhman is
a native Yiddish speaker from the Ukraine. A Professor of Economics in
the former Soviet Union, he was a contributor to Sovetish Heymland. He
presently writes for the Yiddish and Russian Forverts and helps with the
Yiddish radio program “Dos Yidishe Kol”.
Tuition:
Workmen's Circle
&Members of Participating Temples: $165
Non-members: $220
One-Time Introductory Rate: $195
For more information
or to register please contact us at 617 566-6281 or circle@workmenscircleboston.org
Please make checks payable to Workmen’s Circle & mail to 1762
Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02445
For more information, contact The Workmen's Circle at (617)566-6281
or circle@workmenscircleboston.org <mailto:circle@workmenscircleboston.org>
YIDDISH CHORUS Join our intergenerational Yiddish community chorus, A
Besere Velt. No auditions and no previous knowledge of Yiddish required.
617-566-6281
OTHER YIDDISH HAPPENINGS - Free and open to the public. For information
on future activities email bag@shore.net or call Barry 617 332-5758 (home),
781 392-2517 (work).
Yiddish Conversation Group meets in Somerville the 2nd Thurs. each month,
8:00-10:00 p.m. Call Linda Gritz/Mike Katz for directions, 617 625-8689.
All levels of speakers welcome.
Yiddish
Sing, 4th Thurs. (usually) each month at the WorkmenÕs Circle
office, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Join this informal intergenerational gathering 617-566-6281
Philip "Fishl" Kutner
1128 Tanglewood Way,
San Mateo, CA 94403
E-mail FISHL@derbay.org
Ph: (650) 349-6946