Major Events

Date	Conference/Convention/Institute	Location	Phone

August 2-7, 2009	Ot Azoy, Yiddish Crash Course	London, England	020-8909-2445
August 9-14 , 2009	KlezFest London 2009	London, England	020-8909-2445
June 21 - July 15, 2010	Tel Aviv Yiddish Summer Program	Tel Aviv, Israel	800-665-9828
Dec. 7-10, 2009	The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish	Jerusalem, Israel	02-5883527
June 29-July 10, 2008	Intl. Advanced Seminar in Yiddish Studies	Tel Aviv, Israel	972-3-6407805
June 24-July 28, 2009	Yiddish Summer Course, Bar Ilan University, Beginners	Ranat Gan, Israel	972-03-5340494
July 15-29 2009	Yiddish Summer Course, Bar Ilan University, Advanced	Ranat Gan, Israel	972-03-5340494
Dec. 24-26, 2009	Second Yiddish Poetry Marathon	Tel Aviv, Israel	972-3-647-0522
July 8-12, 2007	Klezfest St. Petersburg 2007	St. Petersburg, Russia	NY 1-212- 273-1642
Aug. 13-30, 2008	Summer Yiddish Program	Birobidzhan
July 19-Aug. 2, 2009	Jewish Lithuania Program	Vilna, Lithuania	1-514-848-2424 ext. 4632
July 25-Aug. 20 2010	Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish	Vilna, Lithuania	011 370 5 2687 187
May 15-17, 2009	Sof Vokh Oystralye	Melbourne, Australia	61-3-596-5718
Dec. 1-3, 2008	Heidelberg International Conference in Modern Yiddish Studies	Heidelberg, Germany
Oct. 4-6, 2010	Thirteenth Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany	Dusseldorf, Germany	44/(0)651-201-2325
7/10-8/ 15, 2008	Yiddish Summer Weimar	Weimar, Germany	+49 (0)3643 808585
July 19-30, 2010	Summer Yiddish Course in Strasbourg	Strasbourg, France	33 3 69 57 43 37
July 6-10, 2006	Klezmer 2006	Paris, France	33 (0)1 47 00 14 00
July 13-31, 2009	Seminar in Yiddish Language and Literature	Paris, France	33 (0)1 47 00 14 00
Nov 25-26, 2007	Mandelbaum Conference on Yiddish Studies	Sydney, Australia	+612-9351-6670

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American Association of Yiddish Professors	Joseph C. Landis	48 Eastwood Lane, Valley Stream, NY 11581		landisaappy@verizon.net	12/27-30, 2009
ASHKENAZ	Karen Tisch	455 Spadina Ave. Ste. 303, Toronto. Canada M5S 2G8	416-979-9901	info@ashkenazfestival.com	8/26-9/1 2008
Association of Jewish Libraries	Susan Dubin	P.O. Box 1118 Teaneck, NJ 07666	212- 725- 5359	sdubin@socal.rr.com	7/9-15, 2009
Berkeley Yiddish Conference	Yael Chaver	1443 Milvia St. Berkeley, CA 94709	510-643-2995	ychaver@socrates.berkeley.edu	5/22-23, 2006
Charlotte Yid. Inst.	Baila Pransky	6426 Green Cove Dr. Charlotte, NC 28270	704-366-5564	johnbaila@aol.com	8/19-22 2010
JCC Chicago Yid. Inst.	Helen Schechtman	9560 Gross Pt. #606B Skokie, IL 60076	847-674-0001	hschechtman@comcast.net	10/14 2009
Dora Teitelboim Foundation	David Weintraub	POB 14-0820 Coral Gables, FL 33114	305-774-9244	info@yiddishculture.org	Ongoing
Intl Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies	Anne Feder Lee	7207 Kuahono St, Honolulu, HI 96825	808-395-0115	president@iajgs.org	8/2-7 2009
International Assoc of Yiddish Clubs	Fishl Kutner	1128 Tanglewood Way San Matoe, CA 94403	650-349-6946	fishl@derbay.org	4/23-26, 2010
KlezCalifornia	Icek Mozes	178 Stillings Ave., San Francisco, CA 94131	415-239-4105	info@klezcalifornia.org	Ongoing
KlezKamp	Henry Sapoznik	45 E. 33rd St Level B, NY, NY 10016	212-532-8202	info@livingtraditions.org	12/21-26/2008
KlezKamp Roadshow	Henry Sapoznik	45 E. 33rd St Level B, NY, NY 10016	212-532-8202	info@livingtraditions.org	7/30-8/6 2008
KlezKanada	Dr. Hy Goldman	5589 Queen Mary Rd. Hampstead, PQ H3X 1W6 CANADA	514-489-9014	shgoldman@sympatico.ca	8/24-30, 2009
Klezmerquerque 2009	Beth Cohen	707 Arno St. SE Albuquerque, NM	505-343-8227	cohenedmunds@netzero.net	2/12-15, 2009
Montreal Intl.Yiddish Theatre Festival	Bryna Wasserman	5170 Cote Ste-Catherine Road Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3W 1M7	514-739-2301	http://www.segalcentre.org/en/yiddish_theatre	6/17-25/2009
No. American Jewish Choral Festival	Mathew Lazar	120 Riverside Dr. Ste. 1Y NY, NY 10024	212-870-3335	ZamirFdn@aol.com	7/12-16, 2009
NYBC	Aaron Lansky	NYBC 1021 West St. Amherst, MA 01002	800-535-3595 xt 112	hlewin@bikher.org	Year-Around
Calif. Inst. for Yid. Culture & Language	Miriam Koral	Calif. Inst. for Yiddish 333 Wash. Blvd., #118 Marina del Rey, CA 90292	310-745-1190	coral247@hotmail.com	12/15-16, 2007
Workmen's Circle/JCE	Lucy Rauch	45 E. 33rd St. New York, NY 10016	800-922-2558 xt203	www.circle.org/jewish-community.html#circlelodge	7/4-8/15, 2008
Yiddishkayt L.A.	Aaron Paley	3780 Wilshire Blvd #910 Los Angeles, CA 90010	213-389-8880	yiddishkayt@yiddishkaytla.org	Year-Around
Univ. of Ottawa Yiddish Program	Rebecca Margolis	Univ. of Ottawa, Inst of Canadian Studies, 52 Univ. #205 Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5	613-562-5800 #2955	rmargoli@uOttawa.ca	5/1-6/13, 2008
YIVO	Hershl Glasser	15 W 16th St, NYC	212-294 6138	yivoyiddish@yivo.cjh.org	6/29-8/6, 2009
Yugntruf Yidish Vokh	Judith Bro Pinhasik	419 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor York, NY 10003	212-889-0381	yvokh@yugntruf.org	8/25-31, 2009