Lomir ale zingen: Using songs in teaching Yiddish

Asya Vaisman Schulman

Dr. Asya Vaisman Schulman is the Director of the Yiddish Language Institute at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. She teaches Yiddish language at Hampshire College and in the Yiddish Book Center's Steiner Summer Yiddish Program. She received a PhD in Yiddish Language and Culture from Harvard University in 2009. Her dissertation research focused on the Yiddish songs and singing practices of contemporary Hasidic women.