"In eynem" Online: Summer course with Adrien Smith Alentseva
A summer review course, featuring tasks, listening activities, and authentic texts, designed to practice previously covered topics in Unit 3 of In eynem. This is an optional supplement to Adrien's spring 2022 Unit 3 class.
Class dates:
Classes are held once a week on Wednesdays for 9 weeks. Class is from 10–11:30am Eastern Time, with a short break in the middle.
May 4, 11, 18, 25
June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Cost: $300 for members, $350 for nonmembers.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations by May 3 will be refunded, minus a $30 administration fee. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide refunds for cancellations after May 3.
About the Instructor:
Adrien Smith holds a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from Stanford University. Her research looks at Yiddish speech style in Russian literature and performance in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as at Soviet science fiction. She has taught Russian and Yiddish languages and literatures at Stanford, where she also leads the Yiddish reading group. She earned her BA from Wellesley College and MPhil from Cambridge University. In 2021, she taught one section of Beginning Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program. As a 2021-2022 Translation Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, Adrien is translating a selection of short works of fiction by emerging Yiddish writers, including Aleksandra Polyan, Etl Niborski, Shiri Shapira, Raphael Halff, and Emil Kalin.
Questions? Please contact Margaret Selinger, education program assistant, at mselinger@yiddishbookcenter.org.