About me
Nikolai “Kolya” Borodulin is the master teacher and Director of Yiddish programming at the Workers Circle in New York, the largest non-academic program in the United States. He teaches Yiddish language and culture to multigenerational audiences: kids, teens, and adults (sometimes four generations together), nationally and internationally, and is credited with giving hundreds of Yiddishists their foundation in the language. His dynamic style has garnered a growing fan base across the United States and beyond. He is the organizer of the Trip to Yiddishland program (Circle Lodge, Hopewell Junction, New York) and Yiddish programming coordinator at KlezKanada. Borodulin is the author of Yiddish Year Round: A Curriculum for the Young Beginners and a number of Yiddish educational materials for children. He piloted in 2014 and is successfully running live, online Yiddish classes at the Workers Circle.a master Yiddish teacher and runs Yiddish language and culture programs for children and adults at The Workmen's Circle, KlezKanada and other national and international venues. He is the author of Yiddish Year Round – a Curriculum for Young Beginners and a set of Yiddish games, Alefbeys Tsimes. Borodulin grew up in the Yiddish autonomous region of Birobidzhan.
