Welcome to
Queer Yiddish Camp
Queer Yiddish Camp is a two-week online Yiddish intensive from for ALL levels. Take language, literature, song, history, and culture classes from an all-queer faculty of world-renowned Yiddish teachers, scholars, artists, activists, and cultural workers! This year’s Queer Yiddish Camp intensive takes place Sunday, November 3 – Sunday November 17, 2024!
Program Info
The Queer Yiddish Camp intensive is 6 days a week Sunday to Friday with two 75-minute sessions a day and over 30 hours of quality language, cultural, arts, and curated community programming!Â
Registration
Registration for the next Queer Yiddish Camp is now open! You can join our mailing list to hear about our other queer & radical Yiddish learning opportunities and upcoming events!
Who We Are
Queer Yiddish Camp was launched in 2021 by founding director freygl gertsovski to foster an inclusive, accessible, social-justice oriented community for queer and allied Yiddishists to learn and create new Yiddish culture in the radical traditions of our ancestors.
The inaugural Queer Yiddish Camp Intensive in 2022 was taught by sixteen world-renowned all-queer faculty of language teachers and cultural workshop leaders, as well as special guests for public programming. Since then, together with our partners, we have continued to deliver high-quality queer-led Yiddish programming and opportunities for our community. Read more about Who We Are.
Our Values
Queer Yiddish Camp values anti-oppression, centering the margins, accessibility, a culture of care and accountability, radical learning and pedagogy, challenging the canon, doikayt (hereness), cross-cultural solidarity, and nationhood not nationalism.
Read more about the liberatory community we’re creating together!
Support Our Work
Queer Yiddish Camp is made possible by the generous support of people like you!
Donate today to contribute to the Scholarship and Accessibility Funds.
Become a Sponsor at the Khaver, Khevruseh, Kiteh, Kheyder, or Kehileh levels.
