The Plenary Sessions

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

• Philip Fishl Kutner: Editor of Der Bay
  Conference Orientation

• Founding Session of the International Associatio of Yiddish Teachers
• Panel Moderator: Archie Barkan, Using Music in Teachubg Yiddish
• Panelists: Cookie Blattman, Elisheva Edelson, Cindy Paley, Lori, Cahan Simon

SATURDAY MORNING
The 12^th IAYC Lerner Memorial Lecture

• Jonathan Sunshine: Introduction
Former President of Yiddish of Greater Washington
• Boris Sandler: Editor of Forverts
• Di evolutsye fun der yidisher literatur nokh der tshernovitser konferents

SUNDAY MORNING

• Dr. Barney Zumoff: Introduction
Former President of the Arbeter Ring and the Forward Associaiton
• Dr. Motl Rosenbush: IAYC Vice President
"der aroysfoder fun yidish"/The Challenge of Yiddish

Lectures - Workshops - Panels

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 of 4 club leaders
• Sabell Bender – The Underworld Plays of Sholem Asch
• Prof. Chaim Berman – Evolution Yiddish Schools and the Labor and Radical Movements
• Cookie Blattman – Di Yidishe Shtunde
• Kolye Borodulin – Experiments with Culture in Birobidzhan
• Sabina Brukner – Making Yiddish Relevant in Today’s Jewish Life:  The KlezKamp Experience
• Dr. Zack Chayet – Di Yidn fun Meksike
• Adrienne Cooper – Yiddish Songs of War in Women's Lives
• 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
• 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
• Miram Koral –Yiddish Poetry
• Dr. Sandy Lakoff & Dr. Elie 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
• Prof. 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

The Evening Programs

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

• Paul Melrood Greetings
President of the IAYC
• Bob Kaplan Greetings
President-elect of the Workmen’s Circle

• 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
• Heather Klein: Soprano
• Mitch Smolkin: Actor, Singer, Producer
• Others tba