Yiddish

Faculty

Placement Guidelines

For placement information, please contact the instructor. 

Instructor: Jonathan Levitow
Email: jlevitow@ucsc.edu

Lower-Division Courses

YIDD 1. First-Year Yiddish 1

Introduces the Yiddish language. Students learn to speak and to ask others in Yiddish about themselves and about common situations (the classroom, work, family), and learn to read and write simple Yiddish texts.

YIDD 2. First-Year Yiddish 2

Follows YIDD 1, expanding vocabulary to include the weather, physical health and sickness, holidays, clothing, etc., and increasing student ability for self-expression using different tenses and grammatical cases.

Prerequisite(s):  YIDD 1 or by consent of instructor.

YIDD 3. First-Year Yiddish 3

Follows YIDD 2, expanding vocabulary to include food, travel, and academic life, with an emphasis on the expression of feelings and opinions, agreement and disagreement, making use of all tenses and all grammatical cases.

Prerequisite(s): YIDD 2 or by permission of the instructor.