Voices from Ukraine: Reading Poetry by Yidishe Dikhterins

Leyenkrayz for Intermediate and Advanced Yiddish Students led by Tanya Yakovleva

Join a warm, judgment-free leyenkrayz (reading circle) conducted entirely in Yiddish, designed for Intermediate II and Advanced students. Together, we will explore and translate selections from Ezra Korman’s groundbreaking 1928 Chicago anthology Yidishe Dikhterins (“Yiddish Women Poets”). Our focus will be on female poets from Ukraine, including Dine Lipkes, Khane Levin, Mire Khenkin, and Anyuta Pyatigorskaya. Along the way, you’ll deepen your reading fluency, enrich your vocabulary, and discover the life stories behind these remarkable voices.

Prerequisites: Solid Yiddish reading skills and a basic working vocabulary are required.

When: Wednesdays, January 7 – February 11, 1 p.m. PT (3 p.m. CT/ 4 p.m. ET/ 10 p.m. in most of Europe/ 11 p.m. in Israel)

Where: on Zoom

Tuition: $180 for all 6 sessions or $30 for a 60-minute online class.

Early Bird (one week before): $150 all 6 weeks or $25 for a 60-minute online class. 

Students: $150 all 6 weeks or $25 for a 60-minute online class. 

Joanna (Jana) Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh

Founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America, Yiddishland California, and Yiddish Theater Academy: www.yiddishland.ca, www.yiddishtheateracademy.org 

Doctoral Candidate

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

University of Michigan

Author of "Wooden Wars, or: Everybody Can Be Jewish These Days": 

Author of  "Śmierć czy zmartwychwstanie? Współczesny teatr jidysz w Europie na tle historycznym": http://janamazurk.wix.com/book