HJS News
UCL Festival of the Arts May 7-17
Start:
May 7, 2013 1:00:00 PM
End:
May 17, 2013 7:30:00 PM
Location:
various venues, UCL Bloomsbury Campus More...
Europe and the Holocaust - Shifts in Public Debates in Poland, Germany and the UK
The panel investigates shifts in the role of the Holocaust in European
public debates in the recent past. Contrasting developments in Poland,
Germany, and Great Britain, we will identify common threads as well as
differences in perceiving, presenting, memorizing the mass murder of
European Jewries.
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Graduate Student Conference: Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe
The Yiddish Forverts has recently published a report from the Graduate Student Conference on ‘Jewish Spirituality in Eastern Europe – a Textual Perspective,’ held at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL on 6-7 June, 2012. The article, authored by conference participant Adi Mahalel (Columbia University), is available online on the website of the Forverts: http://yiddish.forward.com/node/4589 More...
New publication: The Russian-Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937
Over a period of three years, the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at
UCL has been cooperating in a research project devoted to 'Cultural Continuitiy
in the Diaspora: Paris and Berlin in 1917-1937', based at the Department of
European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, and in cooperation
with the Centre for European and International Studies at the University of
Portsmouth. The project had been funded by the Leverhulme Trust Academic
Collaboration-International Network scheme. Among the initiators of the project
had been the late John D. Klier. More...
International Graduate Student Conference 2012
The Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL is pleased to announce plans for an International Graduate Student Conference, devoted to explorations of multiple aspects of Jewish spirituality in Eastern Europe, to be held on 5th and 6th of June 2012 in London. The conference organizers invite graduate students and recent PhD holders to submit their proposals. We welcome presentations addressing any aspect of the religious history and religious culture of Eastern European Jewry, with an emphasis on their textual products. We are particularly interested in proposals which open up new perspectives and pose new questions regarding conceptual frameworks and traditional definitions used to describe Eastern Europe in the field of Jewish Studies. Topics may include:
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HEBR7504 Elementary Yiddish
| Course Code: |
HEBR7504 (BA) HEBR7504A (Junior Year Abroad Term 1) HEBR7504B (Junior Year Abroad Term 2) HEBRG016 (MA) |
| Tutor: | Dr Helen Beer |
| Mode of assessment: | A mixture of coursework, oral skills and end of year oral and written exams |
| Taught: | In terms 1 and 2 |
| Classes: |
Mondays, 1100-1300 in Room 239, Foster Court Thursdays, 1400-1600 in Room 331, Foster Court |
The Elementary Yiddish course aims to enable students without prior knowledge, to speak, understand, read and write Yiddish painlessly and fluently.
Classes will share a focus on all four language skills. Conversational topics will incorporate grammatical structures, colloquial expressions and appropriate vocabulary. These will be reinforced through dialogue, role-play and exercises. There will be some emphasis on aspects of Yiddish culture. Reading material will include anecdotes, jokes, folksongs and simple literary texts.
The main text for the year will be Sheva Zucker's Yiddish, Volume I. Supplementary material will be drawn from other texts to correspond to topics of language and grammar being studied. Students are expected to purchase the Zucker book and a copy of Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. Both books are available at www.yiddishstore.com or www.bikher.org
Assessment
BA / Full Year Junior Year Abroad Assessment
- Coursework (grammatical exercises, reading comprehension, composition; due at the beginning of each lesson): 45%
- Oral skills (regular assessment): 5%
- End of year oral exam: 15%
- End of year written exam (gramme, comprehension, translation, essays): 35%
Junior Year Abroad A (September-December) / Junior Year Abroad B (January-June) Assessment
- Coursework (grammatical exercises, reading comprehension, composition; due at the beginning of each lesson): 50%
- End of term written test (grammar, comprehension, translation, essays): 50%
MA Assessment
- Coursework (grammatical exercises, reading comprehension, composition; due at the beginning of each lesson): 40%
- End of year oral exam: 10%
- End of year written exam (gramme, comprehension, translation, essays): 50%
Suggested Background Reading
Encyclopaedia Judaica entry on Yiddish Language
Katz, D. Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish (New York: Basic Books, 2004)
Lansky, A. Outwitting History (London: Souvenir Press, 2004)
