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, 20237 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, 20233 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, 20228 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, 20221 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, 20222 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, 20211 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, 20211 min
50 Verbs Conjugated: The Present Tense
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Reb Noyekh
May 8, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20213 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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