The Plenary Sessions

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

• Philip Fishl Kutner: Editor of Der Bay 3 P.M.
  Conference Orientation

• Founding Session of the International Association of Yiddish Teachers 3:30 P.M.
• Panel Moderator: Archie Barkan, Using Music in Teaching Yiddish
• Panelists: Cookie Blattman, Elisheva Edelson, Cindy Paley, Lori, Cahan Simon

SATURDAY MORNING
The 12^th IAYC Lerner Memorial Lecture

• Hilda Rubin : Introduction 9:15 A.M.
Director /Producer of Di Shpilers
• Boris Sandler: Editor of Forverts
• Di evolutsye fun der yidisher literatur nokh der tshernovitser konferents

SUNDAY MORNING

• Brian Marks : Introduction 9:00 A.M.
Editor of SAJAC - South African Jewish American Committee
• Prof. Iosif Vaisman : George Mason University
"The World Wide Shtetl: Yiddish on the Internet "

Lectures - Workshops

There will be 27 lectures/workshops PLUS 4 Yiddish Teacher Panels. They will range from all Yiddish to mostly English.

• Roz Baker – Programming for Yiddish Clubs—A Panel with 4 club leaders
• Archie Barkan: (Moderator of Panel and 4 Yiddish Teachers) Using Songs in Teaching Yiddish
• Sabell Bender – “Oy He Left Me For My Sister”—Melodramas and Shund
• Prof. Chaim Berman – Evolution Yiddish Schools and the Labor and Radical Movements
• Kolye Borodulin – Experiments with Culture in Birobidzhan
• Dr. Itzik Gottesman – Khanike and Christmas in Yiddish Folklore
• Dr. Zack V. Chayet – Di Yidn fun Meksike
• Adrienne Cooper – Yiddish Songs of War in Women's Lives
• Debby Davis – The Life and Music of Molly Picon
• Viaina Felsen – Chernovits un di idishe imigrantn in amerike
• Sonia Pressman Fuentes – Mayne Yidishe Tate-Mame
• Dr. Amelia Glaser – Remembering the Old Country in the Old Country
• Troim Katz Handler – The Songs of Mark M. Warshawsky (1840-1907)
• Frank Handler – Esther Frumkin, Yiddishist, Feminist, Bundist
• Hershl Hartman – The Yiddish Surge in Current Hollywood Films
• Naomi Karz Jacobs – Los Angeles Girl Starts Jewish Theater
• Miram Koral –The Passionate Ones: Yiddish Women Poets
• 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
• Hilda Rubin: (Moderator of Panel and 4 Yiddish Teachers) Curriculum Content
• 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

Teacher Panels

Teacher's Panel I - Teaching Yiddish Through Song 3:30pm

• Archie Barkan – Moderator, Woodland Hills, CA
• Cookie Blattman – Tamarac, FL
• Elisheva Edelson – San Diego, CA
• Cindy Paley – Sherman Oaks, CA
• Lori Cahan Simon – Beachwood, OH

Teacher's Panel II – Curriculum Content

• Hilda Rubin – Moderator, Rockville, MD
• Frida Cielak – Mexico City, Mexico
• Ruth Goodman – Wilmington, DE
• Sheyndl Liberman – Los Angeles, CA
• Prof. Iosif Vaisman – Arlington, MD

Teacher's Panel III – Pedagogical Methodology

• Miriam Koral Moderator Venice, CA
• Yakob Basner – Seal Beach, CA
• Kolye Borodulin – Staten Island, NY
• Alva Ann Dworkin – Southfield, MI
• Marcia Gruss Levinsohn – Silver Spring, MD

Teacher's Panel IV– Organizational Future

• Adrienne Cooper – Moderator New York, NY
• Prof. Al Feldman – Scottsdale, AZ
• Rachel Leah Jablon – Randallstown, MD
• Cantor Hale Porter – Los Angeles, CA
• Lori Cahan-Simon – Beachwood, OH

The Evening Programs

SATURDAY EVENING:
The Workmen’s Circle Gala Evening of Stars

• Norman Sarkin Emcee
Conference Chair
• Dr. Barnett Zumoff Greetings
Past President of the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring

• THIRD LIFETIME YIDDISH SERVICE AWARD
• Sabell Bender: Introduction
• Hershl Hartman: Introduction
• Lilke Majzner: Recipient
Chair of the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club

• Workmen’s Circle Gala Troupe of Stars
• Adrienne Cooper: Yiddish Diva and Featured Star
• Reyzl Kerkel: Yiddish Storyteller
• Heather Klein: Soprano & Recording Star
• Mitch Smolkin: Actor, Singer, Producer
• Others tba