Marianne Tatom (Mirl) is an enthusiastic Yiddishistke who has studied Yiddish at YIVO, the Workers Circle, and KlezKanada. She was a 2018-2019 Pedagogy Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center and is now a Field Fellow with the Wexler Oral History Project, conducting interviews in and about Yiddish. Marianne teaches beginning and intermediate Yiddish at Congregation Beth Shalom (Seattle), Seattle Central College, and the Edlavitch DCJCC (Washington, DC). She also facilitates a weekly online Yiddish Torah study based on Yehoash's famous translation of the Tanakh. In addition to her Yiddish activities, Marianne is a klezmer clarinetist and a freelance copyeditor with a PhD in music theory.
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