CONTRIBUTOR

Asya Schulman

Yiddish Book Center

Asya Vaisman Schulman 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. Schulman 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.

Pedagogy

Hasidic Games for Yiddish Learning

Asya Schulman

Over the past fifteen years, I have purchased over thirty Hasidic games and tested them out with various groups of Yiddish learners to find ones that work most effectively in different contexts and varying levels of classes.

Jan 26, 2026

Hasidic Yiddish

language pedagogy

Games

Interview

Training for Yiddish Instructors Based in The Latest Pedagogy Research: An Interview with Asya Schulman and Sonia Bloom

Asya Schulman, Sonia Bloom and Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane chats with Asya Schulman and Sonia Bloom to learn about the whats, hows, and whys of the programs for training Yiddish language instructors through the Yiddish Book Center: the Yiddish Pedagogy Fellowship, the Yiddish Pedagogy Practicum, and Advanced Yiddish classes for Yiddish teachers.

Mar 05, 2024

language pedagogy