Yiddish
Courses/
Workshops
Yiddish Absolute Beginners (Online)
Yiddish Beginners (Online)
Yiddish Beginners (Face-to-face)
Yiddish Intermediate (Online)
Introduction to Yiddish Theatre (Alternating face-to-face and online sessions)
About the Teachers
Tamara Micner
Tamara Micner (she/her) is an advanced student of Yiddish and a writer & performer for theatre based in London. She recently completed advanced Yiddish studies at the Paris Yiddish Centre/Medem Bibliotek, and has previously studied with Ot Azoy (UK), International Yiddish Seminar (Poland), Yiddish on the Continent (Belgium), KlezKanada (Canada) and Der Arbeter Ring (USA).
She is also helping organise this year's Yiddish Sof-Vokh outside Sheffield. She descends from native Yiddish speakers and is thrilled to teach Yiddish with Babel's Blessing.
@tamarafm www.tamaramicner.com
Osian Evans-Sharma
Osian Evans Sharma is a Yiddish teacher who teaches at the Jewish Music Institute's summer programme 'Ot Azoy', at Leo Baeck College, with synagogues and privately.
He has led workshops in Yiddish poetry online and at the Shtetl Berlin Festival. He is one of the organisers of the group Yiddish House London and of the annual residential Yiddish Sof Vokh UK. He has studied Yiddish at University College London and at summer programmes in Tel Aviv and Berlin.
He is currently undertaking a fellowship in pedagogy at the Yiddish Book Center. In his free time, he enjoys world cinema and making puppets.