List of Conference Presenters and Topics

Roz Baker – Sharing Yiddish Club Programming Ideas —A Panel
Sabell Bender – “Oy He Left Me For My Sister”—Yiddish Melodramas
Prof. Chaim Berman – Yiddish Schools and the Labor and Radical Movements
Kolye Borodulin – Experiments with Culture in Birobidzhan
Dr. Zack Chayet – Di Yidn fun Meksike
Adrienne Cooper – New Yiddish Songs from Around the World
Debby Davis – The Life and Music of Molly Picon
Vivian Felsen – Czernowitz and the Early Jewish Immigrants to N. America
Sonia Pressman Fuentes – Mayne Yidishe Tate-Mame (My Jewish Parents)
Dr. Amelia Glaser – Remembering the Old Country in the Old Country
Dr. Itzik Gottesman – Khanike and Christmas in Yiddish Folklore
Troim Katz Handler – The Songs of Mark M. Warshawsky (1840-1907)
Frank Handler – Vladimir Medem: Non-Jewish Jew and Yiddishist
Hershl Hartman – Yiddish Surge in Current Hollywood Films
Rachel Leah Jablon – Yizker Bikher, Rhetoric, and Jewish Identity
Miriam Koral – The Passionate Ones: Yiddish Women Poets
Drs. Sandy Lakoff and Dr. Elie A. Shneour – The Life and Work of Zalman Shneour
Peter Louis – The Jews of South Africa
Prof. Meinhard Mayer – Yiddish and German Poets from Czernowitz
Cantor Hale Porter – Yiddish Theater’s Influence on Music & Culture in America
Ron Robboy – On the Trail of Der Yidisher Kauboy
Prof. Joel Schechter – Yiddish Theater in the 1930s in America
Dr. Julius Scherzer – Growing Up in Czernowitz
Harold Ticktin – The Roots of Jewish Humor
Prof. Robert Zelickman – The History of Recorded Klezmer Music 1908-2008
Rokhl Zucker – Yiddish Radio (Haynt)
Dr. Barney Zumoff – My Experience as a Yiddish Translator

Teachers' Panels: IAYT

I Archie Barkan: Moderator and 4 Teachers – Using Music in Teaching Yididsh
II Prof. Iosif Vaisman : Moderator and 4 Teachers – Content - Curriculum - Computer
III Miriam Koral: Moderator and 4 Teachers – Pedagogical Methodology
IV Adrienne Cooper: Moderator and 4 Teachers – Where Do We Go From Here?

Yiddish Club Panel: IAYC
I Roz Baker: Moderator and 4 Club Leaders – Proven Yiddish Programming Ideas