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Come celebrate our new Peretz student reader!
In August 2025 the League for Yiddish published the new student reader Afn veg: Zibn dertseylungen fun Y.-L. Perets (Pathways: Seven Short Stories by I. L. Peretz) – featuring seven short stories by the great classic author, I. L. Peretz, abridged and adapted for Yiddish students and learners by Moishele Alfonso.
At this event, Moishele will discuss his unique approach to this project and will also give a reading of several excerpts. Come hear how it’s possible to adapt Peretz for students without losing the essence and charm of the original text!
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 6:00 pm
YIVO – 15 West 16 Street
New York
Light refreshments will be served.
Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale for $35
($32 for members of the League for Yiddish)
More information about the book and to order at our online store:
https://www.leagueforyiddish.org/peretz.html
Admission free, but advance registration is required:
https://secure2.convio.net/yivo/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=106187
This event will be held in Yiddish and in person only, and will be recorded.
co-sponsored by YIVO
Moishele Alfonso received his B.A. in German, French and Italian from the University of Memphis. He attended the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in 2018 and participated in the Yiddish Book Center’s Yiddish Pedagogy Fellowship (2018-19) and the Yiddish Pedagogy Practicum (2021-22). He has taught Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center, the Workers Circle, and at Kadimah in Melbourne, Australia. In 2021-2022, Moishele transcribed Isaac Bashevis Singer’s book, Sonim: di geshikhte fun a libe (Enemies: a Love Story) into standardized Yiddish from the orthography used in its original serialized publication in the Forverts (1966). Moishele’s version was published in 2022 by Olniansky Farlag in Sweden and is the first time Sonim has ever appeared in book form in Yiddish.
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