Intermediate Conversation Class Series with Reb Noyekh

In this course, students will develop intermediate-level conversation skills through fun and meaningful conversation exercises pulled from the all-Yiddish workbook, Yidish af yidish. This course is conducted almost entirely in Yiddish.

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.