Asya Vaisman Schulman (USA; voice, scholar, Yiddish language )

is the director of the Yiddish Language Institute and the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA.

She is the lead author of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, published by White Goat Press in 2020.

Asya received her PhD in Yiddish Language and Culture from Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation on the Yiddish songs and singing practices of contemporary Hasidic women. She is also a Yiddish dance teacher, singer, and songwriter and has participated in and taught at Klezmer and Yiddish culture festivals around the world.

Asya is thrilled to be returning to Yiddish Summer Weimar, which she attended as participant, Artist-in-Residence, assistant faculty, and interpreter, between 2004 and 2013.

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>> In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook (White Goat Press, 2020)

Photo: Sebastian Schulman