Levels and Teachers

The mornings will be devoted to classes from 9:30am to 1:00pm. Depending on the level, the emphasis will be on learning the language with various methods and tools or studying literary and historical texts from different periods.

Beginners:

Level 1: 

  • Clarisse Brossard 
  • Malena Chinski

Level 2: 

  • Clarisse Brossard
  • Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz

Intermediates:

Level 3: 

  • Sonia Dratwa-Pinkusowitz
  • Malena Chinski

Advanced:

Level 4: 

  • Arnaud Bikard: The stories of Chelm and their rich literary destiny.
  • Helen Beer: Study of the writings of Rokhl Oyerbakh, 20th-century Yiddish author, historian and essayist.

Level 5: 

  • Arnaud Bikard (three weeks): Don Quixote in Yiddish literature.
  • Yitskhok Niborski (one week): Great poets for little children. Study of texts by renowned poets for young people.
  • Helen Beer (one week): The Memoirs of Glikl Hamel, a wealthy Hamburg merchant and businesswoman of the 17th century.
  • Gilles Rozier (one week): Avrom Sutzkever in poetry and prose. Comparative study of his ghetto poems and extracts from his prose book The Wilno Ghetto.