The Routledge Intermediate Yiddish Reader

Learning Through Lives
1. Auflage 2029
ISBN: 978-0-415-82744-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Modern Language Readers

The Routledge Intermediate Yiddish Reader: Learning Through Lives has been specially designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Yiddish.

Learning Through Lives exposes students to simple, natural spoken Yiddish through the fascinating life journeys of three Yiddish speakers; from pre-war Eastern Europe onto their adopted countries.

Transcribed from the original interviews with the author, the stories provide contextualized readings which reveal some of the social history associated with the language, while allowing learners to enhance their reading skills.

Each story is fully supported by:

An English synopsis

Vocabulary lists of difficult words

Short grammar explanations of any difficult structures encountered in the text

Text related comprehension questions

The Routledge Intermediate Yiddish Reader: Learning Through Lives is a unique resource for learners of Yiddish presenting contemporary life stories as a means to enhance reading proficiency while offering social and cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beer, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Über Autor(innen)

Dr Helen Beer is Lecturer in Yiddish.at UCL and Departmental Tutor. She is also Tutor in Yiddish at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. She teaches and lectures extensively in Britain and Europe and has participated in numerous Yiddish summer programmes in Oxford, Brussels, Paris.