Who's the wife of the Clever Little Tailor? My students weigh in!
I couldn't wait to assign my intensive intermediate students at the YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research a creative writing assignment on...
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YIDDISH BLOG - ייִדישער בלאָג
Reb Noyekh
- Feb 5
- 7 min
די פייגעלעך פון האַנאַלולו
Di Féygalakh fun Honolúlu - an original story in Yiddish - by Noyekh Barrera
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Reb Noyekh
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Di kluge Perl: The Clever Wife of the Clever Little Tailor
After assigning my beginner Yiddish students The Clever Little Tailor (Dos kluge shnayderl), I kept getting the same question "What's...
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Reb Noyekh
- Dec 21, 2022
- 8 min
Yiddish Book Reports: Dos kluge shnayderl, Ch. 1
In my advanced beginner classes at the YIVO-Center for Jewish Research, I assigned my students their first Yiddish book, Dos kluge...
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Reb Noyekh
- May 26, 2022
- 1 min
Follow me on my Tour of Germany
For the months of June and July, I will be traveling throughout Germany, sharing with Germans the beautiful Yiddish language and culture....
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Reb Noyekh
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Creating Yiddish Content on TikTok
It's been amazing how many people I've been able to reach over TikTok in a year. I posted my first Yiddish video on May 6, 2021. Hundreds...
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Reb Noyekh
- Jun 12, 2021
- 1 min
50 Verbs Conjugated: Past, Present and Future.
be זײַן have האָבן want װעלן be able, know קענען be able, know קאָנען become װערן say זאָגן have to, must מוזן give געבן make מאַכן come...
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Reb Noyekh
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
50 Verbs Conjugated: The Present Tense
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Reb Noyekh
- May 8, 2021
- 2 min
#3 Yiddish Saying of the Week
Welcome to the third installment of Yiddish saying of the week! This is (more or less) a biweekly blog in which I will post a saying...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
#2 Yiddish Saying of the Week
Welcome to the second installment of Yiddish saying of the week! This is a biweekly blog in which I will post a saying covered in class...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Beginners Reading Practice #4
װי בײַם טאַטן אין װײַנגאָרטן מענדל װײַנטרויב האָט שטאַרק ליב צו טרינקען װײַן. ער טרינקט אַלערליי װײַנען, סײַ רויט סײַ װײַס. ער פֿאָרט...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 7, 2021
- 2 min
Beginners Reading Practice 3#
שלאָף מײַן דאַלי באָריס דײמאָנדשטײן שלאָף מײַן דאַלי, שלאָף מײַן בײבי אַזױ זינגט מײַן מאַ, װען זי דאַרף מיך אױך פֿאַרװיגן װײן ניט, װײן...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Yiddish Duolingo: A love-hate relationship?
The long awaited day is here! Yiddish is finally out on Duolingo. Nu, right after Finnish, but it's here. Many of my students are now in...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
Beginners Reading Practice 2#
די טראַנספּאָרט־מיטלען ערנסט שטראַוס װױנט אין סאַאָ פּאַולאָ. עס איז דאָ אַ סך פֿאַרקער אין דער שטאָט. װען ער באַזוכט זײַנע פֿעטער און...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Beginners Reading Practice 1#
שלום עליכם! מײַן נאָמען איז חיה. איך קום פֿון אַרגענטינע און איך װױן שױן דרײַ יאָר אין די פֿאַראײניקטע שטאַטן. איך בין אַלט 23 יאָר און...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Planters Matzo Kugel
In honor of Passover, we sent our students a recipe for Matzo Kugel from an old Yiddish-English cookbook "46 Ways to Pessach", featuring...
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Reb Noyekh
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
אַ ספּעציעלער פֿרימאָרגן
װי האָט אַלץ אויסגעזען? װי איז געװען דער װעטער? װער איז בײַגעװען? מײַנע מיטעלע סטודענטן האָבן באַשריבן ספּעציעלע פֿרימאָרגנס װאָס בלײַבן בײַ זיי אין...
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Reb Noyekh
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
#1 Yiddish Saying of the Week
Welcome to the first installment of Yiddish saying of the week! This is a biweekly blog in which I will post a saying covered in class...
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Reb Noyekh
- Mar 20, 2021
- 2 min
Yiddish is so expressive! Yidish hot a toyznt tamen!
The Yiddish language is replete with rich proverbs, sayings and idiomatic expressions. Gey veys! Go figure! My students love exploring...
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Reb Noyekh
- Mar 20, 2021
- 3 min
אַן אידעאַל קינד
װאָס טוט אַן אידעאַל קינד? װאָס טוט עס נישט? מײַנע מיטעלע סטודענטן האָבן זייער שיין באַשריבן װאָס דאָס הייסט אַן אידעאַל קינד, לויט זייערע...
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