How a group of retirees uses the Forverts podcast to learn Yiddish
For each text, the author designs activities to promote comprehension as I did when I taught Spanish to college students.
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VIDEO: A song about a Jewish girl, Khaye, who died in Treblinka
Binem Heller wrote the poem about his sister who, before the war, would watch over him and his brothers while their mother worked
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Forverts podcast: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The 1911 tragedy reminds us what could happen when immigrant workers' lives are put in danger.
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