Updated program as of 5/5

Updated Program as of August 5, 2003

Yiddish Teachers:
Heroes Then and Now
International Association of Yiddish Clubs IAYC –8th World Conference
September 4, 5, 6, 7, 2003 Pikesville Hilton, Baltimore, MD
www.derbay.org
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Check in and registration time: from 3:00 Check in to a tuneful welcome by local klezmer duo Jerry Lapides, vocals and harmonica, Jil Ice, vocals and accordion. (Lobby)
Sign up with Mitch Smolkin for Talent Cabaret before Friday Night Dinner. Space limited. (Sing, dance, read poetry or prose, declaim, do your stuff) 5th floor Hospitality Suite - Shule Show and Tell (informal)
Dinner (for hotel guests)( kosher option available)
6:00-7:15 Preakness Ballroom
8:00-10:00 pm Harry V. Lerner Memorial Opening Ceremonies and
Evening Program at the Preakness Ballroom
Welcome by IAYC and Yiddish of Greater Baltimore
Mayor’s Proclamation of Yiddish Month in Baltimore – Councilwoman Rikki Spector
Our keynote speaker will be noted teacher, activist Gella Schweid Fishman who established the Secular Schools in America Collection at Stanford University (California). She will speak on the topic:
The Secular Yiddish Schools in North America:
An Archival Collection as a Living Source of Jewish Creativity
∑ A musical salute to Mikhl Gelbart with teacher/klezmer Lori Cahan Simon trio with violin virtuoso Steven Greenman, Walt Mahovitch and a
Shule/Summer Camp Song singalong.
∑ The big band sounds of the Baltimore Klezmer Orchestra

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
7:45-8:45 am Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up) (hotel guests only)
9:15-10:30am Period A Breakout Sessions
Morrie Feller – Yiddish Kompyuteray: Getting It Write In Yiddish (E/Y) – (Whirlaway)
Troim Katz Handler – “Simche” Love and Sex, Jewish Style” (E/Y) – (Citation)
Eve Jochnowitz – Traditional Shabes Meals (Y/E) (Secretariat)
Iosif Vaisman - Internet as a tool for teaching Yiddish (E/Y) - (Pimlico/Laurel)
10:45-12:00 noon Period B Breakout Sessions
Lori Cahan-Simon – Researching Mikhl Gelbart (Yiddish through song) (Y/E) – (Whirlaway)
Sylvia Schildt – Remembering Brownsville/Mayn Shtetele Bronzvil –
Launch of her new book published by IAYC (Y/E) - (Citation)
Prof. Max Ticktin – Abraham Joshua Heschel & Yiddish - (Y) - (Secretariat)
Iosif Vaisman - Hersh Segal, his friends, pupils, and flourishing of Yiddish
culture in Czernowitz between the World Wars.” (Y) - (Pimlico/Laurel)
12:12-1:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
IAYC BOARD MEETING (Board Room)
1:45-3:00 pm Period C Breakout Sessions
Betty Tepper – Yiddish Tango: Buenos Aires to the World (with leading
Yiddish Tango performer Lloica Czackis?)- (E/Y/S) - (Whirlaway)
Mitch Smolkin -- Yiddish Program in Vilnius (E/Y) (Secretariat)
Sholem Berger – Vos Fara Yid Redt Yidish? – (Y) - (Citation)
Shelby Shapiro - Continues his fascinating exploration of the Yidishe Ganovim – (E) (Pimlico/Laurel)
3:00-3:15 PM – KOSHER PASTRY BREAK
3:15- -4:30 pm Period D
PLENARY SESSION & IAYC ELECTIONS
Plenary Session in honor of long time Yiddish teacher and activist Itche Goldberg (Y/E)
Preakness Ballroom (Panel discussion)
Henry Sapoznik creator of the Peabody Award winning Yiddish Radio Project
and Director of Living Traditions, will hold a very important plenary
session on Yiddish Education and the KlezKamp Phenomenon. KlezKamp, now in
its 18th year, has been a major force in producing a new generation of
enthusiasts of Yiddish music, language, literature and culture and there is
much we can learn from its phenomenal success.
Followed by IAYC ELECTIONS 4:30-5:00***
5:00-5:45 5th floor Hospitality Suite - Shule Show and Tell (informal)
6:30-7:45 pm KOSHER SHABES DINNER (for hotel guests, special passes) with
zmiros by Cantor Allan Berman– Preakness Ballroom
8:30 until 11:00- Preakness Ballroom
GIGANTIC TALENT CABARET (Mitch Smolkin MC)
Cookie Blattman
Elsa Dragon
Lloica Czackis – Yiddish Tango
(Sign up with Mitch anytime Friday before Shabes Dinner)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 - GUT SHABES!
7:45-8:45 am Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up)
(hotel guests only)
SHABES (SHABBAT) SERVICES
Orthodox services (optional) (E/H) with Cantor Allan Berman – Churchill Downs
(Nearby Conservative & Reform services available, Secular services upon request)
9:15-10:30 am Period A Breakout Sessions
Dr. Sheva Zucker – Teaching Intermediate Yiddish – (Y/E) - (Whirlaway)
Sylwia Szemanska Smolkin -- Yiddish in Poland in the 21st Century (Y/E) – (Secretariat)
Ruth Barlas – Yitskhok Leybush Peretz: Romantic Realist and Rebel with a Cause – (E/Y) (Citation)
Herman Taube -- Yidishe Zhurnaln in Lodz & Varshe Tsvishn di 2 Velt
Milkhomes – (Y) (Pimlico/Laurel)
10:45-12:00 noon Period B Breakout Sessions
Motl Rosenbush – How to Start a Yiddish “Svive” in Your Town (Y) (Whirlaway)
Judith Seid - Secular Options in Judaism (E/Y) - (Citation)
Kolye Borodulin - A Sheyne Bobe Mayse, slide talk on Yiddish Children’s Texts – (Y) (Secretariat)
Roz Baker, Panel leader – Yiddish Club Programs that Work - with Ruth Barlas, Fishl Kutner, others (E/Y) (Pimlico/Laurel)
12:15-1:30 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (Sabbath Observers Take Away Lunch included with Kosher Option)
1:45-3:00 pm Period C Breakout Sessions
Dr. Solon Beinfeld – New Yiddish Center in Paris, its cultural activities
and goals, the work of Prof. Yitskhok Niborski and others. ( (Y/E) – (Whirlaway)
Hilda Rubin - Yiddish theatre as a means of teaching language – (Y/E) - (Citation)
Jim Kapplin – My Life As a Zamler (E) - (Secretariat)
Yale Strom – Klezmer history as found in Yizkor books (E/Y) -- (Pimlico/Laurel)
3:00-3:15 pm - KOSHER PASTRY BREAK
3:15-4:45 pm Period D
PLENARY SESSION & FILM SHOWING – (Preakness Ballroom)
Filmmaker Yale Strom screens and discusses his film “L’Chaim, Comrade
Stalin” with former Birobidzhaner Kolye Borodulin.
4:45-5:45 5th floor Hospitality Suite - Shule Show and Tell (informal)
6:30-7:45 pm DINNER (for hotel guests, special passes) Preakness Ballroom
(Kosher option by pre-arrangement only)
8:30-10:00 PM GALA EVENING CONCERT - PREAKNESS BALLROOM
A special in-person greeting from the YIDDISH THEATER BY Zalmen Mlotek,
Executive Director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, only and oldest
continuous running Yiddish theater in America – in honor of of his parents,
also great Yiddish educators, writers and collectors of Yiddish cultural
treasures – the late Yosl Mlotek (z’l”) and Chane Gordon Mlotek.
Plus …
∑ The unique music of Baltimore’s wildly popular Charm City Klezmer
∑ Shira Shazeer and Ken Richmond, Fish Street Klezmer Duo, of Klezmaniacs
fame in a program of Yiddish song – old favorites, new discoveries
∑ World Class khazn AVI ALBRECHT sings Yiddish

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
7:45-8:45 am Kosher Bagel Continental Breakfast (Special Corridor set-up)
(hotel guests only)
9:15-10:15 am Period A Final Breakout Sessions
Miriam Beckerman -- Mayn Lerer Dovid Katz (Y) (Whirlaway)
Rabbi Reuven Poupko -- Yidish Tsvishn di Khsidim(Y) (Secretariat)
Marcia Gruss Levinsohn – Model children’s class (E/Y) (Pimlico/Laurel)
Fanny Yokor -- Dialogues for Yiddish Conversation - (Y) – (Citation)
10:30-12:00 noon Period B CLOSING PLENARY SESSION & CONCERT
Shelby Shapiro – Jewish Day Schools & the Future of Yiddish (Y/E) (Preakness Ballroom)
Concluding Soulful Sunday Concert with a host of favorites new and old Mayn Oytser --Concert of Yiddish Art and Folk Songs with Sender Botwinik, Sherm Labovitz and Marvin Weinberger from their CD published by the Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia.

12:00 noon – kosher box lunch (for hotel guests)
CHECKOUT (Those going on the guided tour may leave luggage in designated area – see concierge)
GUIDED TOUR - AN ADVENTURE NOT TO BE MISSED
Bus departs 12:15 for guided tour of Jewish Baltimore with Aaron Seiden (Pre-registration only)
Books, videos, CDs, tapes and more Yiddish goodies by our own Sal Kluger in the Bowie Room
We reserve the right to make schedule changes in response to unforeseen circumstances.
A mentsh trakht un G-t lakht.