If you’re inspired to learn Yiddish, you’ll be joining hundreds of learners who are part of the Yiddish revival – and there are many places to learn across the world some are in person but many are also online. This list is only a selection of places to learn regular classes or summer courses.

United Kingdom

Babel’s Blessing, London – babelsblessing.org/yiddish

Leo Baeck College’s Lehrhaus – https://lbc.ac.uk/lehrhaus-languages/

Jewish Music Institute – Ot Azoy Summer Course, London – jmi.org.uk/event/ot-azoy-2025-learn-yiddish/

University College London – ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/elementary-yiddish-HEBR0041 and ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/intermediate-yiddish-HEBR0043

The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages – https://www.ochjs.ac.uk/language-classes/oxford-school-of-rare-jewish-languages/yiddish/

International

Medem Yiddish Centre, Paris – cours.yiddish.paris/

Centrum Kultury Jidysz, Warsaw – jidyszland.pl/en/yiddish-seminar/

The Paideia Folkhögskola, Stockholm, Sweden – paideiafolkhogskola.se/en/courses/yiddish-for-beginners-semester-1-vt25-eng/ and paideiafolkhogskola.se/en/courses/yiddish-for-advanced-beginners-semester-5-vt25-eng/

Tel Aviv University – en-humanities.tau.ac.il/naomiyiddish/about

Yo Yiddish Ort, Jerusalem – yo-yiddishort.org/

Worker’s Circle, New York – www.circle.org/2025yiddishclasses

YIVO, New York – www.yivo.org/classes

Yiddish Book Center, Massachusetts – yiddishbookcenter.org/educational-programs/adult-learners/register-online-class

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast is written and presented by Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs

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Website image: “A Monologue fun a vaytshepeler rekrut”, Di Velt, March 1916.