Buffalo Yiddish Study Group

The Buffalo Yiddish Study Group meets the 1st and 3rd Thursday evening of every (civil) month at the Greater Buffalo JCC (Amherst Benderson Building). It currently meets at 6:00pm. If you are new to the group, call ahead to verify the time and schedule, as we have made some changes in the schedule (716-688-4033). Contact Jack Freer, yiddish@bfn.org to find out what readings are scheduled or for other questions.

Upcoming readings (as time permits each session):

An Old Yiddish version of Shloyme/Ashmeday from Jerold C. Frakes, ed., Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750 (Oxford UP 2004), pp. 194-205.
tsvey antisemitn, by Sholem Aleichem
durkh a shpalt, by Avrom Reyzen

Literature

Sh. Anski
Sholem Asch
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Dovid Bergelson
Khayim Nakhman Bialik
Osip Dimoff
Simon Dubnov
Shimen Frug
Shloyme Gilbert
Yankev Glatsheyn
Avrom Ber Gotlober
Khaym Grade
Khone Gottesfeld, alias Tuvye Shmeykhl
Der Antikvar by Itzik Gottesman
Binem Heller
Peretz Hirshbein
Leon Kobrin
Avrom Koralnik
Abba Kovner
H. Leivick
Z. Libin
A. Litvin (pseud for Shmuel Hurwitz)
Itsik Manger
Ida Maze
Kadye Molodofsky
Moyshe Nadir
Story of a Rabbi and his Only Son by Nakhman Bratslever
M. Nudelman.
Joseph Opatoshu.
Rabbi Ephraim Oshry.
Y.L.Perets
Dovid Pinski
Avrom Reisen
Sholem Aleichem
Kalman Segal
Eliezer Shtaynbarg
Murdered Soviet Poets
Avrom Sutzkever
Taytsh Khumesh
Tkhines (Women's Prayers)
Smugglers by Oyzer Warshawski
Yiddish Blogs
I. I. Zevin

Grammar and Orthography

Soviet Yiddish
Inflection/Declension (PDF)
Inflection/Declension (Word)
Prefixed Verbs (Word)
Prefixed Verbs (PDF)

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Contact: yiddish@bfn.org