{"id":4055,"date":"2022-09-09T18:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2022-09-09T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:49:49","slug":"more-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/arts\/more-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"My first introduction to learning Yiddish at college was memorizing a poem teaching the yiddish alphabet. After I had recited that poem in class, I already felt like I had a base of Yiddish. Even though the words and sentences that I was saying weren\u2019t mine, I borrowed them and used them as a foundation on which to build a stronger Yiddish vocabulary.<br \/>\tThis summer, in Professor Eliezer Niborsky\u2019s grammar class, we had a similar exercise. This time, I memorized a poem by Itzik Manger, a poet for whom I already had an affinity after studying his biography last spring. This poem was much more sophisticated, and introduced me to words and phrases that not only had the benefit of teaching me new Yiddish vocabulary, but were also beautiful. The image of God thundering in heaven and whispering in a valley, of fever ridden fingers feeling out rhymes, and a golden peacock familiar in flight all struck me.<br \/>After memorizing the poem, I felt that I had attained a little piece of Yiddish literature that was deeply personal. Sharing the poem with the class and hearing others recite their poems allowed me to understand the possibilities of studying Yiddish, and the breadth of amazing work that exists and is ever more available to me after this summer. <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first introduction to learning Yiddish at college was memorizing a poem teaching the yiddish alphabet. After I had recited that poem in class, I already felt like I had a base of Yiddish. Even though the words and sentences that I was saying weren\u2019t mine, I borrowed them and used them as a foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"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":[17,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-naomi-fellowship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-13p","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}