Borns Jewish Studies Program

An intensive course for native and near-native German speakers. Primarily for graduate students the course may be suited for advanced undergraduate students with native or near native proficiency in German. We will, among other, focus on major elements of Yiddish orthography, phonology morphology, lexicon, semantics and syntactic structures. In addition to linguistic matters and internal multilingual components of Yiddish (Semitic, Germanic, and Slavic) we will also read and listen to samples of Yiddish folklore (songs, anecdotes, and narratives) and dialects, as well as read and analyze together modern and modernist Yiddish poetry and shorter forms of fiction and some nonfiction (including listening to recordings of authors reading, reciting or orally presenting their works).