Since its publication in 1994 Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture has become the leading Yiddish textbook. It is a comprehensive program with book, answer key, and very thorough recordings (available in both CDs and tapes), and may be used for both classroom and self-study.

The book is suitable both for students who have no prior knowledge of the Yiddish alphabet as well as those who do. It contains 285 pages and is divided into eleven units/fifteen lessons. It contains a Yiddish-English Glosary.