Reccomended Reading

Hopefully my crash-course introduction to Yiddish has you interested in finding out more about this exciting language. If you can't find a Yiddish course being offered in your area, these books will help you on your way:

Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature, and Culture by Sheva Zucker. ISBN 0-88125-500-9. A good, friendly text for beginners, although I mean serious beginners. Try and get her tapes, too. I reccom end this book for post-college adults or those without access to college courses.

College Yiddish: An Introduction to the Yiddish Language and to Jewish Life and Culture by Uriel Weinreich. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-88208. Very intensive but still geared for beginning-level. Less f riendly and pretty than the Zucker book, but a more organized and thorough approach. This is the text I'd reccomend for college students.

Hooray for Yiddish!: A Book about English by Leo Rosten. ISBN 0-671-43025-4. For those who don't want to learn a whole language but just want to know the Yiddish-isms in modern American Jewish culture. His first book, The Joys of Yiddish, is also well worth reading.

Grammar of the Yiddish Language: By Dovid Katz. ISBN 0-7156-2162-9. If you know a lot of vocabulary, this is a good guide for putting it to use. Not a stand-alone instructional text.

201 Yiddish Verbs by Anna Rockowitz. ISBN 0-8120-0604-6. Another supplementary text, it's nothing but verbs and all their conjugations. Very useful if you're composing writing in Yiddish.