Zucker Sh. Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature and Culture: A Textbook for Beginners. Volume II

Publisher: The Workmen’s Circle
Date: 1 edition (January 1, 2002)
Number of pages: 200
ISBN: 978187790975729 of 351 been brought back. My approach in Yiddish is to teach Yiddish as a spoken, living language. Today, most young Yiddish speakers, with the exception of Hasidic Jews, have learned the language through study in a formal instructional setting. Indeed, these settings have produced a new and very different sort of Yiddish speaker. While studying a language academically can seldom yield the same fluency as learning it at home, it can perhaps produce other desirable results. Students who learn Yiddish by choice usually gain a unique appreciation of its historical significance and its capacity to enrich them intellectually and spiritually. The blossoming creativity of those newly involved with the language testifies to this.