About me
Asya Vaisman Schulman, Ph.D. (language, dance) is the director of the Yiddish Language Institute and the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. 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. Her Yiddish textbook for beginning students, In eynem was published by White Goat Press in 2020. Asya is also a Yiddish dance teacher, singer, and songwriter and has participated in and taught at Klezmer festivals around the world. She currently resides in Montreal.
