Intensive Yiddish Weekend for
Advanced Intermediate and Advanced Students
January 17 – ­January 20, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

I will be offering an intensive Yiddish weekend for advanced-­intermediate and advanced Yiddish students. This will be a total immersion experience with one of the foremost Yiddish teachers in America. The weekend will consist of grammar, conversation and readings from Yiddish literature. (The exact curriculum will be decided based on the participants.)When: Friday evening, January 17 through Monday, January 20, 2 P.M.Shorter Friday to Sunday evening option available. Register by December 5.Where: Durham, North CarolinaCost: $275 (Friday to Monday) or $225 (Friday to Sunday). Price includes the following meals:

Friday night dinner

Breakfast: Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Bagel lunch: Saturday and Sunday

Some home hospitality is available on a first come first serve basis. Reasonable hotel rates in nearby hotels.

There are very reasonably priced flights (if booked sufficiently in advance) from New York, Boston, and other cities.

For information and registration:

Email Sheva Zucker sczucker@aol.com

Deadline: December 5, 2013.

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SCHEDULE

Friday afternoon, January 17, 2014: Arrival

Shabes dinner.

Saturday

Breakfast

Reading of weekly Torah portion in Yiddish and discussion

Walk

Lunch

Saturday afternoon: Yiddish Literature

Dinner

Concert: Jane Peppler – Yiddish Cabaret songs from Warsaw and More

Sunday

Breakfast

Grammar and Literature

Lunch

Grammar and Literature

Walk/Free time

Dinner

Evening Program:

Talk (in English) by program participant Ellen Cassedy on her award-winning book: We are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust

Viewing of film on writer Avrom Karpinovitch

(We will be reading one of Karpinovitch’s wonderful stories about Vilna.)

Monday

Breakfast

Grammar and Literature

Departure 2 PM

Schedule is subject to change.

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Email Sheva Zucker at sczucker@aol.com to register or for more information.