Rozhinkes mit mandlen: Winter Fruit and Nuts in Ashkenazic Cuisine
Tuition: $240 | YIVO members: $180**
This is a live, online course held weekly on Zoom. Enrollment will be capped at about 25 students. All course details (Zoom link, syllabus, handouts, assignments, etc.) will be posted to Google Classroom. Students will be granted access to the class on Google Classroom after registering for the class here on the YIVO website. This class will be conducted in Yiddish.
Instructor: Eve Jochnowitz
„ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען“: װינטעראויפּס און ניס אין דער אַשכּנזישער קיך
ייִדישע באַלעבאָסטעס האָבן פֿאַרטראַכט געניאַלע מיטלען צו היטן דאָס געזונט אין אָנבליק פֿון דעם שװערן מזרח־אייראָפּעיִשן װינטער. אין דעם װאַרשטאַט, דורכגעפֿירט אין גאַנצן אויף, ייִדיש, װעלן מיר זיך פֿאַרנעמען מיטן קאָכשטייגער װאָס איז אָפּגעמשלט אין ייִדיש־שפּראַכיקע קװאַלן, װאָס לערנען אונדז װי אַזױ זיך אַן עצה צו געבן אין דער שװערער צײַט פֿון יאָר.
Jewish balebostes devised ingenious strategies to stay healthy and safe as they endured bitter Eastern European winters. This workshop, conducted entirely in Yiddish, will recreate recipes and techniques from Yiddish sources, helping us to sustain ourselves in these challenging times.
Yiddish Level:
This course is appropriate for Yiddish students at the intermediate level and above.
Course Materials:
The instructor will provide all required course materials digitally throughout the class on Google Classroom.
Questions? Read our 2027 Winter Yiddish Seminars FAQ.
Eve Jochnowitz, Yiddish instructor at the YIVO institute and the Workers Circle, is an institute fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Jochnowitz has been teaching Yiddish language, culture, and literature, as well as Yiddish foodways and dance, for 25 years. She worked for several years as a cook and baker in New York and received her Ph.D. from the department of Performance Studies at New York University. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual, as well as on food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook (Fania Lewando’s Vegetarish-dietisher kokhbukh) translated, annotated, and adapted for the modern kitchen, was published in 2015.
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