Beginner Conversation Class Series with Reb Noyekh

In this course, students will develop beginner conversation skills by analyzing select dialogues pulled from Colloquial Yiddish. Prior knowledge of the alef-beys is not required, since all conversations are offered in transliteration. On the basis of these dialogues, Students will work together to construct their own conversations.

Noah Barrera, known by his students as Reb Noyekh, is a Yiddish educator, writer, and translator. He studied and subsequently taught Yiddish at the YIVO Institute’s Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in New York. He coordinated and taught Yiddish language classes at the Workers Circle. He has published in the Yiddish Daily Forward, Afn Shvel, Pakn Treger, and elsewhere. His translation, together with Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, of Abraham Rechtman’s memoirs of Sh. Ansky’s Jewish Ethnographic Expeditions is set to be published by Indiana University Press.