Yiddish

Courses/
Workshops

About the Teachers

Motl Rosen

I am a cultural and social historian and the co-director of Jargon, a non-profit dedicated to exploring the past, present, and future of diasporic life. 

My ongoing research concerns Whitechapel Library, the so-called university of the ghetto. I have studied Yiddish in London, New York, and Berlin and now help to run a monthly Yiddish conversation group in London.

I am an advisor to the People's Museum Somers Town and am on the steering group of the Sof-Vokh UK, an annual weekend of Yiddish-language immersion. 

Osian Evans-Sharma

I am a Yiddish teacher at Leo Baeck College, at the Jewish Music Institute’s summer programme Ot Azoy, and a private tutor.

I have led workshops in Yiddish poetry online, at the Shtetl Berlin Festival, at the Maison de la Culture Yiddish and at the Yiddish Sof Vokh UK, which I have helped to organise for the last three years. I am one of the organisers of the group Yiddish House London. I studied Yiddish at University College London and at programmes in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Paris, and I recently completed a pedagogy fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center (Amherst, MA).

In my free time, I enjoy world cinema and making puppets.