(Originally posted 7\/13)
Almost ending our second week of classes here at the Yiddish program it feels like time is flying faster than I can even account for. I\u2019m certainly feeling more comfortable with my Yiddish speaking. Beyond that \u2013 it\u2019s clear as day that when you begin reading literature intensively and see many of the same words over and over again they stick pretty quickly. We just transitioned from our first unit on Ukrainian poet \u05e9\u05d9\u05e7\u05e2 \u05d3\u05e8\u05d9\u05d6 to reading an excerpt from \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d1\u05e2\u05e8\u05d1\u05d2\u05e2\u05dc\u05e1\u05d0\u05b8\u05e0\u05f3\u05e1 \u201cBetween Immigrants.\u201d
I\u2019ve been going to the translation workshop and now will start an independent study with Prof. Barbara Mann at JTS looking at Female Writers in Yiddish and translation. Hopefully, I\u2019ll have a short story ready to publish by the end if the summer.
There are so many languages represented in just my class level it makes me want to learn all of them. Our professors give examples and translate into many of them. Next week I\u2019ll perform a recitation of a poem about the Arch-Demon Ashmodai. I also signed up to present a bit of my pre-research for my thesis which will hopefully have my peers direct me to further reading and resources. Learning all of these new things is really very fun and it hardly feels like \u201cschool\u201d in a traditional sense. Certainly without any of the flogging that they used to do to shtetl kids in cheder.
I\u2019m excited to continue my adventures and enjoy what this fantastic group of people and place has to offer.
Cheers,
Boaz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Originally posted 7\/13)Almost ending our second week of classes here at the Yiddish program it feels like time is flying faster than I can even account for. I\u2019m certainly feeling more comfortable with my Yiddish speaking. Beyond that \u2013 it\u2019s clear as day that when you begin reading literature intensively and see many of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naomi-fellowship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-13a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}