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Yiddish Classes — Summer 2025

Regular Course Pricing

  • Non-Members: $180

  • Members: $150

  • Students*: $90

  • Yiddish Teachers* $90 (non-members) / $75 (members)

Intensive Course Pricing

  • Non-Members: $360

  • Members: $310

  • Students*: $180

  • Yiddish Teachers* $180 (non-members) / $155 (members)

If you are a Yiddish teacher, or full-time student, contact yiddish@circle.org before you register for discount codes. If you are a full-time student, be sure to send a copy of your valid student ID in the email.

Discount Rates:

  • Full-time Student: 50%

  • Yiddish Teacher: 50%

ALL TIMES INDICATED ARE US EASTERN TIME

Summer 2025 Yiddish Classes

Learn to Read the Yiddish Alef-Beys with Gustavo Emos (Day Course): Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 – 4:00 PM ET: June 12, 17, 19, 24, 26
from $150.00
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Learn to Read the Yiddish Alef-Beys with Gustavo Emos (Evening Course): Tuesday and Thursday, 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET: June 12, 17, 19, 24, 26
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Alef-Beys for Yiddish and Ashkenazi Hebrew with Sasha Berenstein: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:00 – 7:30 PM ET: July 1, 3, 8, 10, 22
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Beginner I with Dvora Zylberman: Sunday, 6:00 – 7:30 PM ET: June 29, July 6, 20, 27, Aug. 3
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Beginner I with Karo Wegner: Tuesday, 1:30 – 3:00 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Beginner I with Sarah Biskowitz: Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22
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Beginner I with Gustavo Emos: Wednesday, 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Beginner I (continuation of Spring 2025 semester) with Marianne Tatom: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Beginner I Intensive (Polish Yiddish) with Leyzer Burko: Monday and Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 30, July 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 28, 31
from $310.00
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Beginner I (Intensive) with Marianne Tatom: Tuesday and Thursday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: July 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 13
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Beginner II with Sonia Bloom: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Beginner II (Continuation of Spring 2025 class) with Gustavo Emos: Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Beginner Conversational Yiddish with Rivka Blum: Monday, 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET: June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21
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Beginner III (continuation of Spring 2025 semester) with Baruch Blum: Monday, 8:15 – 9:45 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Beginner III with Tamara Micner: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 5, 12, 19, 26, July 3
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Beginner IV (Continuation of Spring 2025 semester) with Marianne Tatom: Wednesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Beginner IV with Annie Cohen (continuation of Spring 2025 semester): Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: July 17, 24, 31, Aug. 7, 14
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Beginner Conversational Yiddish III with Rivka Blum: Monday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21
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Beginner Conversational Yiddish IV with Rivka Blum: Wednesday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23
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Advanced Beginner with Sasha Berenstein: Wednesday, 6:00 – 7:30 PM ET: Jul 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Advanced Beginner II with Gustavo Emos: Tuesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Advanced Beginner Conversation with Baruch Blum: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Advanced Beginner Conversation with Natalia Krynicka: Tuesday, 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Intermediate with Leyzer Burko: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Stories from the "Other Side": Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Intermediate II with Miri Koral: Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Intermediate III (continuation of Spring 2024 semester) with Eve Jochnowitz: Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Intermediate V with Eve Jochnowitz: Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Intermediate Grammar with Katerina Kuznetzova: Yiddish Syntax: Monday, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Intermediate Conversational Yiddish: Dybbukim with Rivka Blum: Sunday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20
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Intermediate Conversation with Natalia Krynicka: Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Intermediate-Advanced with Refoyl Finkel: Wandering Stars: Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Intermediate-Advanced with Baruch Blum: Green Yiddish: Monday, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Intermediate-Advanced with Annie Cohen: Calling on the Dead in Times of Crisis: the Customs of Cemetery and Grave Measuring: Monday, 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 28, Aug. 4
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Intermediate-Advanced with Rivke Margolis: Yiddish Horror Movies: Monday, 7:30 – 9:00 PM ET: July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug. 4
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Intermediate-Advanced with Daniel Galay: Yiddish Intonation: Wednesday, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Intermediate-Advanced with Annie Cohen: Gina Medem, the Yiddish pasionaria: Wednesday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 30, Aug. 6, 13
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Intermediate-Advanced with Sheva Zucker: Motl Peyse dem Khazns: Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: May 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25
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Intermediate-Advanced with Robert Shapiro: Y.Y. Trunk's Khelemer Hakhomim: The Wise Men of Chelm: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
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Intermediate-Advanced with Ester Szwarc: Vitebsk through Bella Chagall’s Eyes: Thursday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 3, 10, 17, 24. 31
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Intermediate-Advanced with Lena Watson: Yiddish Handwriting: Thursday, 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 30
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Intermediate-Advanced Conversation with Yankl-Peretz Blum: Sunday, 10:00 – 11:30 AM ET: June 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20
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Intensive Advanced with Eve Jochnowitz: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29, 31
from $310.00
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Advanced Yiddish with Gennady Estraikh: How Yiddish Changed in the 20th Century: Sunday, 10:00 – 11:30 AM ET: July 6, 13, 20, 27, Aug. 3
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Advanced with Leyzer Burko and Uri Horesh: Yiddish of the Old Yishuv: Sunday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: June 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27
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Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: Moyshe Broderzon — the Troubadour, the Poet, the Language Virtuoso: Monday, 1:30 – 3:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Advanced with Dov-Ber Kerler: Internet shminternet: Who, What, Where and When in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Studies: Monday, 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Advanced with Natalia Krynicka: Representations of the shtetl in the poems of Miryam Ulinover, Anna Margolin, and Reyzl Zychlinski: Monday, 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Advanced with Sebastian Schulman: Yiddish in Quebec, Quebec in YIddish: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Advanced with Yitskhok Niborski: Alter Katsizne’s Ballads: Wednesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
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Advanced with Sheva Zucker: Yosl Birshteyn: Wednesday, 2:30 – 4:00 PM ET: July 23, 30, Aug. 6, 13
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Advanced with Tal Hever-Chybowski: "Our Uncle Ishmael": Arabs and Muslims through Yiddish Eyes: Thursday, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET: June 12, 19, 26, July 3, 10
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Advanced with Avrom Lichtenbaum: Leyb Naydus: A New Song in Yiddish Literature: Thursday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 30
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Yiddish Song Workshop with Zisl Slepovitch: Monday, 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET: July 14, 21, 28, Aug. 4, 11
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Line Spinning with Josh Horowitz: Monday, 1:45 – 3:00 PM ET: July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug 4
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Klezmer Workshop with Aaron Alexander: Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28
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Yiddish Song Workshop with Josh Waletzky: Dos tsebrokhene harts/Yiddish Songs of Heartbreak: Tuesday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
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Yiddish Song Workshop with Paula Teitelbaum: Missing Home / Ikh benk aheym: Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM ET: June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 22
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S’iz Yontev! Lomir Zingen! With Cindy Paley: Thursday, 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET: July 17, 24, Aug. 1, 7, 14
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