15th IAYC Conference: Pittsburgh, PA 2013

The President’s Greetings Our exhibitors and vendors play an integral role in our events. You can learn something new by visiting the vendors’ tables, not to mention the wonderful items you can buy. It is a good way to spend our intermissions. It is my privilege to recognize Dr. Barney Zumoff, the recipient of the sixth IAYC Yiddish Lifetime Service Award. We have instituted a new award entitled the IAYC Jewish Community Service Award, to honor a worthy person from the conference area. Arthur George Fidel, z”l is the first recipient. It is a distinct honor and pleasure to welcome I would like to thank Nina Kaplan and her you to the Fifteenth Conference of the organizing committee along with all the International Association of Yiddish Clubs in participants who did a wonderful job in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. preparation of this conference. It was their Twenty years ago we convened our first tireless efforts that are making this a very Conference in College Park, Maryland. It was special event for all of us. And, of course, I entitled International Conference of Yiddish wish to thank each and every one of you for Clubs and after incorporation it took its being with us in Pittsburgh for this meeting current name. Not everybody was optimistic and for your continuing participation in the about the long term prospects of this International Association of Yiddish Clubs. endeavor, but today, twenty years and Much credit for such amazing progress fourteen conferences later we continue to should be given to a handful of determined celebrate Yiddish language and culture, their Yiddishists—the organizers and founders, venerable and storied history and, more the movers and shakers of IAYC. importantly, their presence in our lives here They are: our long time, former president, and now. Dr. Harold Black (z”l) who resided in Just as it has been withe previous conferences, Bethesda, MD, but retired to Southfield, MI; this meeting promises a great program, Morrie Feller, of Phoenix, AZ; Dr. Allan including lectures and presentations by Blair, of Columbus, OH; Troim Handler, of distinguished speakers, interactive Monroe Twp., NJ, and W. Palm Beach, FL; workshops, and wonderful entertainment Bess Shockett (z”l), of N. York, ON, Canada; with music, songs, and dance to enjoy and Mike Baker, (z”l) of Minneapolis, MN; and participate. In addition we have added, Philip Fishl Kutner, who is from San Mateo, Yiddish in Slippers: A Dream Sequence. CA, but is really from Fair Lawn, NJ. So, in closing, I'd like to thank all of you conference attendees, the first timers and veterans, for your inspiring presence and support. Without you there is no IAYC and no united voice. Our cause is historically justified ...Lang lebn zol yidish! Professor Iosif Vaisman, IAYC President Bethesda, Maryland 1

Historical Background of the IAYC The FIRST conference of Yiddish clubs was Yiddish teacher, author, and leader of in Washington, D.C., May 29-June 3, 1993 Yiddish of Greater Baltimore, Sylvia and was hosted by the Yiddish of Greater Schildt, o”h, chaired the EIGHTH Washington. Delegates; Dr. Harold Black, o”h, conference in Baltimore, MD September 4-7, Dr. Allan Blair and Fish! Kutner were asked to 2003 at the Pikesville Hilton Hotel. look into another conference. The NINTH IAYC conference returned to Because of its active Yiddish Club, Bess and the Midwest June 2-5, 2005, Minneapolis, Barry Shockett o\"h (editor of Dos Bletl), The MN. Roz Baker and Michael o\"h reached Toronto Friends of Yiddish accepted the the peak at the Double Tree Hotel. It was challenge, and the SECOND conference made excellent and will be hard to match because it an international group. It was in Toronto, of its heymish atmosphere. October 7-10, 1994. The TENTH conference was, July 6-9, 2006, A committee of Yiddish of Greater Wash.; Der at the Marriott Hotel in Teaneck, NJ. The Bay, San Francisco; Dos Bled, Toronto; and theme was A Tribute to Yiddish. Chairman Circle of Yiddish Clubs, Florida met at the was Samuel Kutner, with Gregg and THIRD conference in Miami, FL, March 14, Stephanie Hudis acting as hosts. The host 1996. They chose a committee to incorporate. club was the Teaneck JCC Yiddish Club. David and Ruth Barlas chaired the conference The ELEVENTH conference theme was which had 450 attendees. A Flourish of Yiddish Culture. It was held Dr. Harold Black was elected IAYC Chair. It August 3-6, 2007. Co-chairs were H. Ticktin, was incorporated in the State of Maryland. A. Weiss, and M. Cagin at the Cleveland The FOURTH conference was May 24-27, Marriott East Hotel. It was timed to attend 1997 at Trinity College in Fairfield, CT., W.C. the Annual Concert at Cain Park. Branch 105, S. Dowling, R. Millman & J. The TWELFTH conference celebrated Douglas were co-chairs. the 100th anniversary of the Czernowitz The FIFTH IAYC conference chaired by Mel Conference. Norman Sarkin and Bella Rogow was held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, Suchet were co-chair at the Marriott Hotel August 27-30, 1998. It established the IAYC in La Jolla, CA, near the JCC. with a board of nine. The 250 delegates gave The IAYC’s THIRTEENTH conference was it a strong endorsement, to work as an celebrated in Millbrae, CA. IAYC now had international force for fostering Yiddish. a place in the World-Wide Yiddish President Dr. Harold Black was co-chair with Community. It was chaired by Fishl Kutner. Elaine Mann of Bethesda, MD. Our SIXTH The FOURTEENTH conference was in conference saw us return to Maryland at the Novi, MI near Detroit, and had IAYC headquarters of the International 4H in Chevy return to the Midwest after two conferences Chase, Maryland. This took place September in California. IAYC treasurer Jerry Gerger 14-17, 2000. chaired the conference. President, Paul Meirood, chaired the Steeltown USA, Pittsburgh, PA is the site of SEVENTH conference, the first time in the the FIFTEENTH IAYC Conference that will Midwest. The theme was Mame-Loshn and be remembered for its innovations which the Shoa. It was held April 12-15, 2002, and at include: Yiddish in Slippers: A Dream the Park East Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sequence and lunchtime music programs. near beautiful Lake Superior. 2

AIMS AND PURPOSES OF THE IAYC Vision Benefits of Belonging to IAYC * To access leyenkrayzn, shraybkrayzn, * To support Yiddish club conferences. shmues grupes, shtudir, choral, choirs, large To take Yiddish out of isolation, unite, and or small clubs, classes from elementary, give it a strong international presence. The secondary, post secondary to adult and make IAYC conferences are a source of interaction them aware of their rich heritage. for groups, and meeting like-minded people * To become a clearinghouse for the creation to hearing and meeting the best resource and distribution of Yiddish educational and people be they writers, scholars, teachers, program materials. musicians, actors singers, or organizers. * To encourage and initiate research of * To access and arrange touring groups, existing or new material—be it educational, speakers, singers, theatre groups, musical music, art, or literature and make it available performances etc., via currently existing to the clubs. newsletters or the electronic media. * To encourage new writers by giving them * To have Yiddish groups and organizations a forum in our newsletters or local papers benefit from such efforts. Cooperation is the which have a Yiddish column. basis of success. Each type of activity adds * To encourage the formation of new groups greatly to the overall knowledge and interest in various formats wherever possible, be they of the Yiddish Community. large or small. * To join with other like-minded people * To encourage groups to issue newsletters all over the world in sharing the even if it is only once or twice a year. camaraderie, joy, pleasure, knowledge, ideas * To lobby Holocaust committees to include and support of a larger group activity. Yiddish poetry and songs in their memorial MISSION programs. * To provide a global perspective and * To encourage younger people to take network for Yiddish groups—be they large classes, or form them, wherever possible. To or small. those who are already learning the language, * To exchange educational and cultural encourage them to explore their Ashkenazi materials produced by the clubs and by roots through history, music and literature— associated organizations. the history and literature in translation, if * To experience a sense of unity while necessary. striving to keep our language, literature, * To lobby all types of Jewish schools, be they and culture alive. Hebrew Day Schools, Hebrew Schools or As the sole international organization Sunday schools, to include Yiddish classes in fostering Yiddish clubs, the IAYC is in the their curriculum. forefront of extolling the benefits of our * To lobby universities to include Yiddish mameloshn. Your participation is needed. courses in their Jewish Studies Program. The greater the number of us participating They should include Yiddish language, in Yiddish activities the greater will be the literature and eastern European history. pleasure and enjoyment. 3

Yiddish Group Members of the IAYC CANADA Cote St. Luc Mameh loshn CANADA North York Lomir Redn Yiddish Club CANADA Toronto Friends of Yiddish CANADA Winnipeg Group for Yiddish Heritage CANADA Winnipeg Gwen Sector Creative Living Ctr. Y.C. ISRAEL Tel Aviv Sirkin Yiddish Club SO. AFRICA Natal Durban Yiddish Club SPAIN Madrid Yiddish Circle in Madrid URUGUAY Montevideo Fraynt fun Yidish AZ Peoria Madison Yiddish Club AZ Scottsdale Freileche Mentshn of Temple Solel CA Berkeley Joys of Yiddish Conversation Grp. CA Encino Storefront Yiddish Club CA Los Angeles Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club CA North Hills Yiddish Culture Club - Valley Branch CA Oakland Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco CA Palm Desert L’Chayim Yiddish Culture Club CA Palm Desert Just for Fun Yiddish CA Palo Alto JCC Yiddish Club CA Redondo Beach Temple Menorah Yiddish Club CA Sacramento A. Einstein Sr Comm. Yiddish. Club CA San Diego Yiddishe Culturele Grupe CA San Diego Yiddish Circle: Lawrence Family JCC CA San Leandro Jewish Currents Discussion Group. CA San Mateo Peninsula JCC Yidishd Club CO Denver Lomir Redn Yidish CT Hamden Yale-New Haven Yiddish Reading Circle CT Southbury Heritage Village Yiddish Reading Circle CT Stratford Bridgeport JCC Yiddish Club CT West Hartford Sophie Kellin Yiddish Literary Society FL Boca Raton Boca Woods Yiddish Club FL Boynton Beach Palm Shore Yiddish Club FL Boynton Beach Palm Beach A.R. Leyen Krayz FL Delray Beach Jewish Heritage Club FL Tallahassee Tallahassee Yiddish Club FL Tamarac Kings Point Yiddish Club FL West Palm Beach Yiddish Culture Group of Century Village GA Atlanta Atlanta yidish libhobers IL Chicago Hallmark’s Yiddish Group IL Highland Park Central Avenue Synagogue IL Northfield Fraytikeh Fraynd IL Oak Park Mameloshn Yiddish Song Group IL Park Forest Over 50 Yiddish Club IL Urbana Der Prairie Yiddish IL W Chicago YIVO of Chicago KS Overland Park Kansas Knockers KS Overland Park Yiddish Circle for Learning KY Lexington Yidish umbestoymt KY Louisville Redt Yiddish MA Newton Centre Orchard Cove of Canton, MA MD Greenbelt Mishkan Torah Yiddish Club MD Rockville Yiddish of Greater Washington 4  

Yiddish Group Members of the IAYC MI Southfield Freylekhe Fraynd MI Southfield Heckman Yiddish Group MN Minneapolis Minneapolis JCC Yiddish Club NC Charlotte Charlotte Yiddish Institute NE Omaha Lomir redn yidish NJ Fair Lawn Paramus Yiddish Club NJ Jersey City Yiddish Club of Bayonne NJ Matawan Temple Beth Ahm Yiddish. Club NJ Monroe Township Monroe Township Leyenkrayz NJ Teaneck Teaneck J.C. Yiddish Club NV Las Vegas Yiddish Friendship Club NV Las Vegas Yiddish Vinkl of Las Vegas NY Bronx Farber Yiddish Club NY Brooklyn Marsha Love Yiddish Club NY Eastchester Eastchester Yiddish Group NY New Paltz New Paltz Yiddish Club NY New York Penn South Senior Ctr. Mameloshn Class NY New York Sholem Aleichem Yiddish Club NY New York Arbeter Ring Yiddish Club NY New York Sholem Aleichem Club of PAS NY Plandome Undzer Leyenkrayz of RSNS NY Rochester Rochester JCC Yiddish Club NY Somers Heritage Hills Yiddish Conversation Group NY Syosset Mid-Island JCC Yiddish Vinkle OH Beachwood Cleveland Arbeter Ring Yiddish Club OH Cleveland Cleveland Yiddish Cultural Committee OH Dayton Lynda Cohen Yiddish Club of Dayton, OH OH Shaker Heights Myers Retirement Village Yiddish Vinkl OH Shaker Heights Di Yiddish Groupe OH Toledo Yiddish Club OR Eugene Yiddish Club of Eugene, Oregon PA Haverford Haverford Yiddish Club PA Philadelphia Yiddish Vinkl PA Pittsburgh Yiddish Laybt PA Wyncote Kum Red Yidish TX Houston Houston Yiddish Vinkl VA Newport News Newport News Yiddish Club VA Vienna Yiddish of Greater Wash. WA Seattle Seattle Yiddish Group WI Milwaukee Milwaukee Yiddish Club CA Grass Valley Dr. Arnold Adicoff A.M. CA San Rafael Judith Lubeck A.M. CA Los Angeles Chic Wolk A.M. FL Lakeland Deborah Herman A.M. ID Boise Dr. Ted Century A.M. ME Peaks Island Julie Goell A.M. OR Portland Frank Krasnowsky A.M. RI Cranston Jane Civins SC Columbia Mannie Farber A.M. SD Rapid City Ann Stanton A.M. WA North Bend Frank Krasnowsky A.M.   5  

International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC) International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conferences I Univ. of MD Dr. Harold Black, Dr. J. Sunshine & S. Verner May 29 - June 3, 1993 II Toronto, ON Bess Shockett October 7 - 10, 1994 III Miami, FL Ruth & David Barlas March 1 - 4, 1996 IV Fairfield, CT J. Douglas, S. Dowling, R. Millman May 22 - 26, 1997 V UCLA, Los Angeles Mel Rogow August 27 - 30, 1998 VI Chevy Chase, MD Dr. Harold Black & Elaine Mann Sept. 14-17, 2000 VII Milwaukee, WI Paul Melrood April 12-15, 2002 VIII Baltimore, MD Sylvia Schildt Sept. 4-7, 2003 IX Minneapolis, MN Roz Baker June 2-5, 2005 X Teaneck, NJ Samuel Kutner July 6-9, 2006 XI Cleveland, OH Harold Ticktin Aug. 3-6, 2007 XII La Jolla, CA Norman Sarkin Oct. 24-27, 2008 XIII Millbrae, CA Philip “Fishl” Kutner April 23-26, 2010 XIV Novi, MI Gerald Gerger August 26-29, 2011 XV Pittsburgh, PA Nina Kaplan April 26-29, 2103 International Association of Yiddish Clubs Board of Directors Vivian Felsen Toronto ON Laurie Melrood Tucson AZ Prof. Raphael Finkel Lexington KY Harold Ticktin Shaker Heights OH Gerald Gerger W. Bloomfield MI Prof. Iosif Vaisman Arlingtonn VA Barbara Goldstein Houston TX Lenora Zimmerman Skokie IL Debbie Herman Lakeland FL Rochelle Zucker Winnipeg MB Dorothy Marden Minneapolis MN Dr. Barney Zumoff Brooklyn NY International Association of Yiddish Clubs Advisory Board United States World-Wide Roz Baker Minneapolis MN Dr. A. Lichtenbaum Buenos Aires Argentina Cookie Blattman Tamarack FL Bobbi Zylberman Victoria Australia Mark David Brookline MA Oscar Antel Winnipeg Canada Alva Dworkin Southfield MI Gerry Kane Toronto Canada Morrie Feller Phoenix AZ Prof. E. Orenstein Westmount Canada Troim Handler Monroe Twp. NJ Helen Smolkin Toronto Canada Philip “Fishl” Kutner San Mateo CA Prof. Y. Niborski Malakoff France Aaron Lansky Amherst MA Daniel Galay Tel Aviv Israel Marcia Gruss-Levinsohn Silver Spring MD Bella Bryks-Klein Petah Tikvah Israel Paul Melrood Glendale WI Dr. A. Nowersztern Jerusalem Israel Cantor Hale Porter Palm Desert CA Norman Sarkin Tel Aviv Israel Dr. Motl Rosenbush Kensington MD Dr. Jack Halpern Saitama Japan Hilda Rubin Rockville MD Prof. Yoshiji Hirose Okayama Japan Boris Sandler New York NY Prof. Dovid Katz Vilnius Lithuania Binyumen Schaechter New York NY Frida G. de Cielak Tecamachalco Mexico Simon Swirsky Cleveland OH Dr. Heather Valencia Stirling Scotland Dr. Sheva Zucker Durham NC Richard Carlow Madrid Spain 6

International Association of Yiddish Clubs Wishes to Thank the Pittsburgh Conference Commitee 15th IAYC International Yiddish Conference & Retreat Nina J. Kaplan, Rosa Becker Fundraising, Programs Conference Chair, has an extensive Dr. David Bluestein Outreach background in project management which Leon Brett Ritual helped her juggle the many aspects of Joe Brunner Treasurer, Photographer chairing IAYC’s 15th International Yiddish Heidi Cohen Outreach Conference & Retreat. Sam Friede Hotel Liason, Outreach Nina’s work experience includes: B’nai B’rith International: Administrative Jerry Gerger IAYC Liason Director: Greater Pittsburgh Region, Mohasco Corporation: Senior Marketing Debbie Herman Project Coordinator, Website and Sales Analyst Hoffman LaRoche: Senior Marketing Research Analyst, Sally Herrup Secretary Institute of Transfusion Medicine: Marketing Manager Crop Genetics Annie Kaplan Social Media, Vendors International: Manager of Communications and Market Research. Mitchell Kaplan Program, Fundraising Among her community volunteering are: Lucy Katz Secretary, Outreach Young Judea: Youth Commissioner; Beth El Congregation of South Hills: Vice Janice Keilly Outreach, Vendors President Finance; Greater Pittsburgh Chapter Hadassah: Treasurer; Mashgiach: Gail Kendall Community Resources for several Pittsburgh area synagogues. Merv Kendall Community Resources Harriett Kruman Fundraising F ishl  K utner Journal, Programming Steven Lasky Historical Consultant Joan Minsky Conference Packets Shirley Moritz Hospitality Sharon Moskowitz Hospitality Tomasz Pado Tech Support Cantor Ben Rosner Entertainment Sharyn Rubin Outreach Priscilla Satyamurthy Graphic Design Lin Toder Menu Sol Toder Vendors, Fundraising Avner Yonai Social Media, Exhibitors She attended the Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Cover: Face of Life, Hawaiian Artist, Fannie Narte Fairleigh Dickinson University Executive Inspired by the poem, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” Program. Currently Nina is in a post whose author, Paul Freedman, perished in Auschwitz. baccalaureate program Bachelor of Science given for Yiddish, by a kindred spirit whose native leading to Certification in Mathematics H awaiian  language,  nearly  lost,  is  being  rekindled. Secondary Education. Dear Attendees, It has been a labor of love, and steadfast push to open the door to those who dreamed before us. May they continue to inspire us to explore new meanings and understanding of a spark within ourselves of Eastern European culture and Yiddish. We hope you find within these four days, friendships to last a lifetime, and you leave with the whispers of souls in your heart, growing in courage to engage them in conversations, questioning and arguing with them. Love, Fishl, Nina & Debbie 7  

IAYC Lifetime Yiddish Achievement Awardees Chana Mlotek with Zalmen, 1st Winner, Paul Melrood, 4th Winner 2006, Teaneck, New Jersey 2010, Millbrae, California Simon Swirsky, 2nd Winner, Dr. Harold Black o”h, 5th Winner 2007, Cleveland, Ohio 2011, Novi, Michigan Lilke Majzner o”h, 3rd Winner, Dr. Barnett Barney Zumoff, 6th Winner 2008, La Jolla, California 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 8  

IAYC Lifetime Yiddish Service Award Recipient DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA 15th Conference, April 26th–29th, 2013 His Yiddish literature translations include the following: DR. BARNETT BARNEY ZUMOFF • The Jackpot (translation of Sholem Barney is an internationally renowned Aleichem’s play “Dos Groyse Gevins” teacher and researcher in the field of • I Keep Recalling, Glatshteyn’s Endocrinology who has published 250 Holocaust poems, “Kh’Tu Dermonen” in papers in that field. He currently holds the Yiddish title of Professor of Medicine at Albert • Laughter Beneath The Forest, Einstein College of Medicine in New York Sutzkever’s “Fun Alte Un Yunge Ksav- and was Professor of Medicine at Mount Yadn” Sinai School of Medicine in New York. • In The Valley Of Death, Chaim Besides these accomplishments in the field of Lieberman’s prescient 1938 essay on the Medicine, he has had a distinguished career coming Holocaust, “In Tol Fun Toyt” in the field of Yiddish cultural activity. • God Hid His Face, (translation of Barney has been President of the Forward selected poems by Rajzl Zychlinsky Association, which publishes the Yiddish • Pages From A Charred Notebook, Tsvi Forverts and the English Forward; the long- Eisenman’s short stories titled “Bleter Fun time co-President of the Congress for Jewish A Farsmalyetn Pinkes” Culture; Vice-President of the Folksbiene, the • Beneath The Trees, An art volume of oldest Yiddish theater in the world; Vice-Pres. selected poems by Avrum Sutzkever, in of the Atran Foundation, and, for many years, honor of his 90th birthday President of the Arbeter Ring/Workmen’s • About Mother: Yiddish Poets Speak, Circle. Barney is an IAYC member of the Twenty poems, by various Yiddish poets Board and a very popular conference speaker. all of which have “mother” in the title He has been and continues to be a prolific • Songs To A Moonstruck Lady:Women translator of Yiddish literature. in Yiddish Poetry, A translated anthology of poems by or about women • Secular Jewishness For Our Time, a selection of essays on that subject. • Between Smile And Tear, Anthology of translations of poems by Peretz Miransky • The Waterfall, Rhymed Couplets From Yiddish Poetry • While The Golem Was Sleeping: A Historical Novel Of The Kishinev Pogrom, by Boris Sandler • Escape From Hell: Documentary Novel of the Sobibor Uprising, by Mikhal Lev • If Not Even Wiser,“Oyb Nisht Nokh Kliger” • Allie And The Wolfman, “Ali Mitn Volfman” 9

International Association of Yiddish Clubs 15th Conference – Pittsburgh, PA Exhibitors and Vendors Ask Abigail Productions Moshe Baran Dr. Shirley Barasch Dr. Harry Bochner Ina Block YIVO Creative Seminars Der Bay Dr. Barbara Burstin Lucy Deutsch Vivian Felsen Forverts Friends of the Warsaw Foundation Ger Mandolin Orchestra Barry Goldstein Ruth Goodman Hadassah International Association of Yiddish Clubs Indiana University Press The Jewish Chronicle Jewish Currents Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh Harriet Kruman Lori Cahan Simon Ensemble Lynne Rienner Publishers Rauh J Archives Sherri Roberts Cantor Ben Rosner Silver Sterling Jewelry Co. Binyumen Schaechter – Di Shekhter Tekhter Yale Strom The Survivor Mitzvah Project Dr. Khane Feygl Turtletaub The Yiddish Farm Wayne State University Press White Butterfly Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Book Center Yad Vashem Z Silver 925 Dr. Barney Zumoff 10  

`15th International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference Program Friday, April 26, 2013 Noon - 6:00 p.m. Conference Registration – Exhibitor Setup Noon - Midnight Hospitality Room 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. From The Hague Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences • Dr. Gerben Zaagsma Guided Tour of Yiddish Sources and Research Libraries in Europe 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Orientation Session • Fishl Kutner Overview of the Conference 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. THE PROF. RUTH WISSE LECTURE - PLENARY SESSION A • Prof. Iosif Vaisman Introduction • Prof. Ruth Wisse Chaim Grade and Bashevis Singer 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Intermission 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS - SESSION I • Moshe Baran: Flares of Memory • Leon Brett: With the Jewish Partisans • Sarah Brett: From the Lodz Ghetto to Auschwitz to Mauthausen • Harry Kamel: Poland to Uzbekistan in the Shoah • Susan Melnick: Rauh Jewish Archives: Digitization of Historical Jewish Materials • Helen Faye Rosenblum: Jewish Short Fiction in The Mainstream 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Intermission 6:00 p.m. THE SPECIAL YIVO EVENING 6:00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Dinner – Grand Ballroom • Nina Kaplan: Shabes Blessings and Banquet • Prof. Iosif Vaisman: Introduction of 2013 IAYC Officers and Board of Directors 8:00 p.m. EVENING ENTERTAINMENT: GRAND BALLROOM • Ben & Rebecca Nadler: Brother-Sister Vocalists - Inessa Beylin Tamar. (Pianist) • Leo Melamed: My Story and A Mayse fun a Mantl • Lori Cahan Simon Ensemble: Yiddish Around the Year: Lori Cahan Simon (Vocalist) Alex Fedoriouk (Cimbolam) - Steven Greenman (Violin) - Walt Mahovlich (Accordion) 11:00 p.m. YIDDISH IN SLIPPERS: A DREAM SEQUENCE 11

Saturday Program – April 27, 2013 7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Shabes Services at the Hotel: Hebrew & Yiddish Iyar 18 - the Parshah is Emor (full reading: Leviticus 21:1 - 24:23) Shabes Service Leaders Pittsburgh, PA • Leon Brett: • Dr. Refoyl Finkel: Lexington, KY • Dr. Markle Karlen: Minneapolis, MN 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast - Grand Ballroom 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. IAYC Conference Registration 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Exhibitor/Vendor Marketplace Open 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Artist in Residence – Sherri Roberts 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Magic Carpet 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. Hospitality Room 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. THE FORVERTS HOUR – PLENARY SESSION B • Dr. Barney Zumoff: Introduction • Dr. Itzik Gottesman: The New Forverts Website 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Intermission 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS - SESSION II • Kolye Borodulin: Yiddish for Teachers and Learners: Level I • Vivian Felsen: Yiddish Women Writers: New Translations • Sharon Love: A Synopsis of the Jewish Experience in Japan • Dr. Barney Zumoff: Standard Transliteration Can Bring Us Together 11:30 a.m. - Noon Intermission Noon – 1:00 p.m. GER MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA LECTURE - PLENARY SESSION C • Fishl Kutner: Introduction • Avner Yonai: Recreating The Ger Mandolin Orchestra of the 1930s 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - Grand Ballroom 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Intermission 12

2:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS - SESSION III • Kolye Borodulin: Yiddish for Teachers and Learners: Level II • Tito Braunstein: Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh • Dr. Allan Zeman: My Journey into Yiddish Storytelling • Yale Strom: Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Intermission 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS SESSION – IV • Panel Studying Yiddish Abroad • Rosa Becker: Studying Yiddish Abroad: Tel Aviv • Ruth Kaplan: Studying Yiddish Abroad: Paris • Chantal Knippel Studying Yiddish Local: Paris • Itsik Goldenberg: My Adventure in Yiddish Sheet Music of the Early 20th Century • Dr. Itzik Gottsman: Teaching Yiddish Folklore • Sharon Pucker Rivo: Yiddish Cinema: A Glimpse of Jewish Life 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Intermission 6:00 p.m. THE WORKMEN’S CIRCLE EASTERN EUROPEAN EVENING 6:00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Dinner – Grand Ballroom 7:30 p.m. SIXTH IAYC YIDDISH LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD • Prof. Refoyl Finkel: Presentation of the IAYC Lifetime Yiddish Service Award • Dr. Barney Zumoff: Recipient of the IAYC Lifetime Yiddish Service Award 8:00 p.m. YIDDISH STAR-STUDDED MUSICAL PROGRAM • Janet Mostow: Vocalist • Dr. Jack Mostow: Performer • Dr. Shirley Barasch: Renowned Pianist • Yale Strom: Acclaimed Ethnomusicologist, Klezmer Violinist • Elizabeth Schwartz: The Edith Piaf of Modern Yiddish Singers • Alexander Fedoriouk: Cymbalist 11:00 p.m. YIDDISH IN SLIPPERS: A DREAM SEQUENCE 13

Sunday Program – April 28, 2013 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast - Grand Ballroom 8:00 a.m. - Noon Sign-up for Individual Computer Lesson for Beginners Sign-up for Individual Conference with Yiddish Editor 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Conference Registration Desk 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Exhibitor & Vendor Marketplace Open 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. Hospitality Room 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Magic Carpet - Traveling – Historical Exhibit 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. GRAND BALLROOM - PLENARY SESSION D THE MAX & PEARL KUTNER FAMILY FARM LECTURE • Dr. Itzik Gottesman: Introduction • Naftali Ejdelman: A New Way to Bring Yiddish to the Next Generation 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Intermission 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS SESSION - V • Prof. Refoyl Finkel: Creating A New Folksong in Yiddish • Prof. Yoshi Hirose: My Journey to the World of Yiddish • Nicholas Lane: Jews of the Baltic States • Prof. Iosif Vaisman: Yiddish: The Language of Ideology and Ideology of Language 11:30 a.m. - Noon Intermission Noon - 1:00 p.m. GRAND BALLROOM - PLENARY SESSION E THE HARRIET & JULIUS KRUMAN PHILANTHROPIC FUND OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH CONCERT • Noah Bendix-Balgley: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster • Aron Zelkowicz: Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival Director • Rodrigo Ojeda: Pianist 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - Grand Ballroom 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Intermission 14

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS SESSION - VI • Dr. Harry Bochner: The New English-Yiddish Dictionary • Dr. Barbara Burstin: Highlights of Pittsburgh Jewish History • Laurie Cohen: Library Resources and Yiddish Culture • Harriet Kruman: Mameloshn and Jewish Culture in the Soviet Union 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Intermission 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS SESSION - VII • Dr. Shim Felsen Medicine in the Shtetl • Dr. Alex Orbach: Russian Jewry 1772-1990; in Search of Community • Sebastian Schulman: A New Generation of Translators at the Yiddish Book Center • Rochelle Zucker: Yiddish in the 21st Century - Di Yidishe Gas in the Global Village 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Intermission JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH EVENING 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Dinner - Grand Ballroom 7:30 p.m. FIRST IAYC COMMUNITY LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD • Harold Ticktin: Presentation of the First IAYC Community Service Award to Arthur George Fidel o”h 8:00 p.m. CANTOR BEN ROSNER & JACLYN GRANICK DUO • Cantor Ben Rosner: Singer • Jaclyn Granick: Singer • Don Megahan: Pianist 8:50 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Intermission 9:00 p.m. DI SHEKHTER TEKHTER: THE SCHAECHTER DAUGHTERS • Binyumen Schaechter: Pianist: Director of the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus • Rena Schaechter: Singer • Temma Schaechter: Singer 11:00 p.m. YIDDISH IN SLIPPERS: A DREAM SEQUENCE 15

Monday Program – April 29, 2013 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast - Grand Ballroom 8:00 a.m. - Noon Conference Registration 8:00 a.m. - Noon Artist in Residence – Sherri Roberts 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Exhibitor & Vendor Marketplace Open 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Hospitality Room 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Magic Carpet – Available for Signatures and Memorabilia 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. GRAND BALLROOM - PLENARY SESSION F HARRY V. LERNER MEMORIAL LECTURE • Hilda Rubin: Introduction – Producer, Director of Di Shpilers of Washington, DC • Dr. Motl Rosenbush: Humorous Yiddish Expressions 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Intermission 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. LECTURES/WORKSHOPS SESSION - VIII • Ruth Goodman: Jewish Superstitions • Kathryn Spitz Cohen: Innovative Programming of Jewish Film • Dr. Khane-Faygl Turtletaub: Sholem Aleichem: A Character from Kasrilevke 11:30 a.m. - Noon Intermission Noon - 1:00 p.m. SHOWTIME - GROUP SINGING AND DANCING • Karen Goodman: Dancing Instructor • Lori Cahan Simon: Orchestra Leader • Sebastian Schulman: Group Dance Leader 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lunch - Grand Ballroom Evaluations Group Photos Announcement of the 16th IAYC Conference Individual Tours and Departures 16

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers MOSHE BARAN was raised in Horodok, which was then Poland. In the Spring of 1942 the Nazis sent him to Krasne, the area’s last ghetto to work laying railroad ties. He escaped and joined a resistance group sabotaging and ambushing German troops. In July 1944 he joined the Russian army. He was sent to the front in Gdansk until the end of the war in May 1945. In a dis- placed persons camp in Linz, Austria, Baran met his future wife, Malka, who had survived Treblinka. They married in the newly formed State of Israel. PROFESSOR EMERITA, SHIRLEY R. BARASCH, PhD-teacher of singing, poet, composer-served as Chair, Conservatory of Performing Arts; Director of Music & Fine Arts of 'The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Point Park University, Pittsburgh. Among her awards are: recognition for her appearance in the Warner Cable Television Award Winning \"The Value of Music-Movement in Early Childhood Education\"; the \"Performing Arts Partnership Award\" for contributions to the arts; and fifteen ASCAP awards. ROSALYN ROSA BECKER grew up in Pittsburgh and lives in Morgantown West Virginia. Her work has been in the fields of occupational therapy and Jewish education. She began learning Yiddish at KlezKamp which she has attended many times with her family. She studies Yiddish around the globe and Spanish at home and in Mexico. Ruth and Rosa met in an ulpan class in Israel in 1968 and they continue to share language study adventures. Chantal and Rosa are cousins who also share a love of Yiddish. NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY is concertmaster and violinist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He won 1st prize at the Vibrarte International Music Competition in Paris, France. A Laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, Mr. Bendix-Balgley won 3rd prize and a special prize for creativity at the 2008 Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris. He has played with Brave Old World, and taught klezmer violin. Noah will perform at the conference in a trio Sunday at noon. INESSA BEYLIN is Israeli-Russian pianist and vocal coach based in Pittsburgh. For the last 14 years she has been serving on the faculty at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University. Since arriving in Pittsburgh, she has collaborated with Opera Theater on several productions, appeared in numerous recitals with the finest Pittsburgh's musicians, and was featured on WQED public radio. Ms. Beylin had served on the faculty at the International Vocal Art Institute in Italy and Israel. DR. HARRY BOCHNER earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard. He is the son of Holocaust survivors and grew up in a family where understand- ing Yiddish was a necessity. Study at Harvard and Columbia complemented this knowledge, and he has been involved in Yiddish cultural activities for over 20 years, teaching the language at Boston University and the Boston Workmen's Circle. He is co-editor of the new Yiddish-Englis Dictionary, and the author of Simplicity in Generative Grammar

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers NIKOLAI KOLYE BORODULIN is a native of Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region, and has lectured widely on this area. His interest in Yiddish arose when Anatolii Surnin, a dean at the newly established Teachers College in Birobidzhan, asked him at the start of 1988 to become their Yiddish instructor. He is the Assistant Director of the Center for Cultural Jewish Life of The Workmen's Circle and is on the editorial board of Jewish Currents. He has been a popular presenter at several past conferences. TITO BRAUNSTEIN is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and practiced for 55 years. As a boy, he first fell in love with theater and this interest has never waned. Tito acted, sang, and danced for many years, mainly in Jewish theater. Then he directed and produced numerous plays, also of Jewish life, character and experience. Tito was the founder and artistic director of The Jewish Theatre of Pittsburgh for many years. LEON BRETT was born in Skaudvile, Lithuania. His father was an ordained Rabbi, but had a small shop to earn a living. In June 1940, the Russian army marched into Lithuania. But June 22. 1941 - the war between Germany and Russia started. He fled east on his English bicycle to Shavel, a city 50 miles away, but the Germans captured him. They needed a watchmaker; he had been a watchmaker's apprentice so he was sent to Daugel, a brick factory. In 1944 he escaped and joined a Jewish partisan group. SARAH BRETT Nee LUEL was born in Pabianice, Poland. Her father was a partner in the family textile mill and well off. After the Germans invaded she was forced to work as a seamstress sewing German uniforms. On May 16, 1942 she was sent to Lodz ghetto to braid straw for boots for German sol- diers. August 1944 The Ghetto was liquidated and she was sent to Auschwitz then to Freiberg, Germany to work in an aircraft factory. In April 1945, she was loaded on a cattle train and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. DR. BARBARA S. BURSTIN is a graduate of Vassar College, with a Masters from Columbia Teachers College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She has been teaching for over 20 years at the University of Pittsburgh and for many years also at Carnegie Mellon University. She cur- rently teaches The American Jewish Experience, and the U.S. and the Holocaust. Selected publications include: After the Holocaust: The Migration .of Polish Jews and Polish Christians to Pittsburgh after World War II LAURIE J. COHEN is the Library Liaison for the School of Education, Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies in Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh. Ms. Cohen was a section editor of the Academic Guide to Jewish History web site and is the senior editor of the Institute for Higher Education Management in the School of Education. From 2009 to 2011, she was a member of the Program Committee and the Library Committee of the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers .NAFTALI EJDELMAN, while growing up, was required to speak Yiddish with everyone on his mother's side. His Yiddish speaking family promotes Yiddish culture through academic work, poetry, journalism, and education. His grandfather and great-grandfather dreamed of founding an agricultural Yiddish speaking settlement. While in college, Naftali developed an interest in environmentalism and sustainable agriculture. He co-founded Yiddish Farm, New Hampton, NY a Yiddish speaking agricultural community. ALEXANDER FEDORIOUK began playing the cimbalom at the age of 7 in his hometown of Kolomyia, Ukraine. Growing up in the Carpathian Mountains, he played at weddings in mountain villages in Ukraine and Moldavia. He received his Bachelor's degree in music from The Kiev State Conservatory and has performed as a soloist with The NY Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, NY Chamber Ensemble, and The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra. DR. SHIM FELSEN has been a practicing family doctor in Toronto, Canada, for the past 45 years. He was a lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, until 1996. Although 44 years ago he married into a family of Yiddishists, he only began to improve his Yiddish in the last twenty years – and is still working on it! He has an inter- est in learning about medicine in the shtetls and medicine in the shtetls is the title of his conference presentation. VIVIAN FELSEN is a Toronto translator and visual artist who long has been active in Yiddish circles. For over thirty years she has translated French into English, and recently, Yiddish into English. She was the recipient of a Canadian Jewish Book Award for her translation of Montreal of Yesterday by Canadian Yiddish journalist and author Israel Medres, her grandfather. Her translation of his book Between the Wars, World Wars, won the Segal Award. Her translations are in The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers. PROF. RAPHAEL REFOYL FINKEL developed software for computer-assist- ed Yiddish document creation. His software drives Yidishe Shraybmashinke, a sophisticated Yiddish software is available to Yiddish computer users. He is the technical editor of the Web journal Der Bavebter Yid. Raphael speaks Yiddish with his two children. He is a member of the IAYC Board of Directors. Der Bay published his Minneapolis conference workshop results and will do likewise after this conference. He is the IAYC Vice President. ROBERT ITSIK GOLDENBERG was born in Toronto, Canada, attended a tra- ditional kheyder, was a member of Habonim Labour-Zionist Youth, and sec- tion head at their Camp Kvutza. His passion for Yiddish began after retire- ment and he has attended KlezKamp and the Yiddish Book Center. His inter- est in Yiddish Sheet Music was sparked by his work for YBC in cataloguing their 1000+ folio collection of sheet music. Itsik leads two Yiddish Clubs, in Buffalo NY and another at his shul in St. Catharines, Ontario.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers KAREN GOODMAN received the 2005 Detroit Jewish Women in the Arts Award for her documentary, Come Let Us Dance. She has choreographed 46 works, including 4 full-length solos. Karen produced, directed and wrote the 2002 documentary on Yiddish dance, Come Let Us Dance (Lomir Geyn Tantsn). With Gloria Newman she performed in the Donald McKayle’s Games Company on Broadway, at the Music Center of Los Angeles, the Japan America Theater, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida. RUTH FISHER GOODMAN was educated at the Workmen's Circle Yiddish School in NYC where her teacher was Yudel Mark. She is a retired reading specialist and now teaches Yiddish and courses in Judaic Studies at the University of Delaware Continuing Education Program. Her translation of Der Yidisher Poyps by Yudel Mark is her third award-winning book. Her other two books are: Pen Pals (ages 9-13) and Easy Steps to the Hebrew Aleph Bet. Dr. ITZIK GOTTESMAN is the associate editor of the Yiddish Forward. He has a PhD in Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the work \"Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Folklorists of Poland\" (Wayne State University Press). Itzik has been the editor of the literary journal “Di Zukunft” and established the recording label Yiddishland Records to release Yiddish folk music. He has taught Yiddish language and culture at the University of Texas, Austin Campus and at the University of Pennsylvania. JACLYN GRANICK is a doctoral candidate in history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She is working on her dissertation, entitled \"Humanitarian Responses to Jewish Suffering Abroad by American Jewish Organizations, 1914-1929.\" She took Yiddish courses and sang with RecKlez, the Harvard Klezmer Band and took a summer course at the Bibliothèque Medem in Paris, spent a week on Yiddish Farm, and has taught beginner-intermediate Yiddish. STEVEN GREENMAN has self-produced two landmark recordings docu- menting his original Jewish and klezmer compositions. He has taught klezmer music at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, KlezFest London, Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth, Yiddish SummerWeimar and Master Class de Musica Tradicional Santiago de Compostela. Steven is an accomplished per- former of Hungarian nota, Romanian lautari music and urban East European Gypsy music.and is a performer with the ensemble Harmonia DEBORAH HERMAN lives in Lakeland, Florida. She was an environmental analytical chemist. Debbie is a calligrapher and an award winning Judaica art quilter. She has successfully run large projects like Israel Expo 2000 that drew 10,000 visitors, Shalom Troops 2005, Mitzvah Soup and other innova- tive intergenerational programs. At this conference she has been instrumen- tal in developing the Yiddish in Slippers concept.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers PROFESSOR YOSHIJI YOSHI HIROSE is in the English Department at Notre Dame Seishin University and received his doctorate from Kansai University (Osaka, Japan). “Yoshii” has a diploma in Jewish Studies (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, England), and an MA from the University of Washington. His publications include: Shadows of Yiddish on Modern American Jewish Writers, and The Symbolic Meaning of Yiddish. This will be his fifth appearance at an IAYC confernce as a presenter. ABIGAIL HIRSCH is a Montreal-based filmmaker and the founder of AskAbigail Productions. A professionally trained social worker, Hirsch launched her media career in Montreal in 2007. After attending the International Yiddish Theatre Festival in Montreal, she decided to do a documentary telling the story of the fight to preserve Yiddish since the Holocaust by sharing the stories of three Yiddish activists, emblematic of the last three generations, in a documentary: \"Yiddish: A tale of survival\". HARRY KAMEL attended Polish public school in the morning and then kheyder to learn Yiddish and Hebrew. In 1939 Hitler overran Poland. Harry boarded a cattle car heading east to work on a collective farm 75 km. from Stalingrad. When they heard German planes overhead, a group left and wound up in Uzbekistan working on a farm collecting cotton. In 1944 he was drafted into the Red Army and on the first Belarussian front he was wounded in his left leg. Eleven of his stories have appeared in Der Bay. RUTH KAPLAN is employed by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies as the Director of the Boston-Haifa Connection, a multi-faceted partnership between the sister cities of Boston and Haifa and is a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. A resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, she holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, an M.Ed. from Boston University, and an M.A. from Brandeis University. She studied in two intensive Yiddish programs abroad, in Paris and Tel Aviv. DR. CHANTAL KNIPPEL was born in 1949, into a Jewish family who got French citizenship quite recently. She had a brother. Her parents chose to speak to her only in French, even though they spoke both Yiddish and German. She became a medical doctor in 1976, and worked in Occupational Health. She tried to learn Yiddish for the first time in her thirties, just for a year and started again with earnest. She will be presenting on her experi- ences in studying Yiddish in France. HARRIET N. KRUMAN has tutored Russian-speaking immigrants for over 30 years, was a mentor for new Soviet emigres, and has been the lay leader of The New Americans' Club of Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh. She has been in a leadership role on the national board of the Conservative Movement. Harriet taught an adult class on the History of Soviet Jews at Carnegie Mellon University and is the author of \"The Huddled Masses: Jewish History in the Former Soviet Union.\"

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers PHILIP FISHL KUTNER was raised on a poultry farm in NJ and taught vo-ag and earth science. His interest in Yiddish came from his mother, and her 90 vignettes are in his book Hrabina of Hunterdon. He is a storyteller and the founder and editor of Der Bay an Internatinal Anglo-Yiddish newsletter as well as webmaster of its website. Fishl was Chairman of the Northern California Workmen’s Circle District and President of the San Mateo County Council of the Blind. He is one of the founders of the IAYC. NICHOLAS LANE is a graduate of Oxford University, London with a degree in Modern History. His wife and he were involved in the Soviet Jewry move- ment. Lane helped organize the 1997 conference to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of the Vilna Gaon. Then a colleague and he met with all three Baltic presidents, who jointly agreed to introduce Historical Commissions to study the Soviet and German occupations of their countries. Lane served on the Lithuanian Commission and was decorated in 2007. STEVEN LASKY, founder and director of the Museum of Family History, was honored with the “Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy” award by the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. His Museum of Family History is dedicated to preserving the memory of our Jewish families. The museum, emphasizes Yiddish theatre, the biographies and histories found within Zalmen Zylbercweig’s “Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre” (1931-1969) are being translated from Yiddish to English. SHARON LOVE is a graduate of Winnipeg's I L Peretz Folk School and cur- rentlyis a Board Member of the I L Peretz Folk School Endowment Trust, Chair of the Group for Yiddish Heritage (aka Di Yerushe Grupe) in Winnipeg, longtime board member of Winnipeg's Rady Jewish Community Centre and active in ORT. She enjoys Israeli dancing and participates in workshops. Sharon worked 27 years for Air Canada. She has attended eight previous conferences and been a very popular presenter. LEO MELAMED and his family escaped from Bialystok, Poland and received a visa from Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Counsel General to Lithuania and arrived in the United States in 1941. He is globally recognized as the founder of financial futures. In 1972, as chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he launched currency futures with the creation of the International Monetary Market (IMM)—the first futures market for financial instruments. Leo Melamed is an attorney by profession. He is active in YIVO of Chicago. SUSAN MELNICK has been the archivist for the Rauh Jewish Archives of the Detre Library and Archives at the Heinz History Center since 1997. She is responsible for collecting, organizing, preserving, and making accessible the papers, records, and photographs which document the history of the Jews of western Pennsylvania. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she has received graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Sciences.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers WALT MAHOVLICH grew up listening to the Croatian and Hungarian music of his family. He got his start playing Croatian and Macedonian wed- dings at the age of19, and his career included performances at Smotra Foklora in Zagreb, Croatia, the Smithsonian’s Festivalsof American Folklife, Jimmy Carter’s Inaugural, the Rededication of Ellis Island, the Bicentennial Celebration of the Constitution in Philadelphia as well as performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Walt is the founder of Harmonia, DON MEGAHAN has been Rodef Shalom’s organist and choir director since 1993 and Acting Music Director. He is Director of the Youngstown Symphony Chorus, where he’s in his seventh season. From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Megahan performed with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, serving as accompanist on the group’s 1995 tour of central Europe. He spent 13 seasons as accompanist for the Junior Mendelssohn Choir, and is on the Executive Board of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) Pittsburgh Chapter. JACK MOSTOW started his career as a cantorial soloist at Harvard University Hillel. His choral highlights include recording with the Harvard University Glee Club, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein, and singing with Theodore Bikel. He marched with Martin Luther King, bicycled across the USA, learned Yiddish songs from his grandmother, and performed Gilbert & Sullivan with his wife and daughters. Jack moon- lights as a Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. JANET MOSTOW is a cantorial soloist at 3 Pittsburgh area congregations. She was a NFTY song leader. Her prize-winning song in the NFTY Song Competition led to a memorable afternoon jamming with Debbie Friedman. She sang in the Kennedy Arts Center under Leonard Bernstein and other conductors. She was the vocal soloist for Parparim, Israeli dance troupe at the 92nd Street Y in NYC, and sang in the Zamir Chorale under Matthew Lazar. Janet works at ORACLE as an Information Technology Architect. BEN NADLER is a freshman at Upper St Clair H.S. and has performed throughout Pittsburgh. His roles include Little Jake in Annie Get Your Gun with the Pittsburgh CLO, Artie in Lost in Yonkers, Estaquio in Talking Pictures and Elvis in Miss Nelson is Missing at Little Lake. Theater. School productions include Charlie in Willie Wonka, Simeon in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. Ben is a BECCA NADLER is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she stud- ied American Musical Culture and Performance Studies. She has been the High Holidays Cantorial Soloist at Tree of Life/Or L'simcha Congregation, and sings at Beth El Congregation of the South Hills. Her theatrical experi- ence is from stage design to acting. Her credits include singing the role of Josephine in the Pittsburgh Savoyards' production of H.M.S. Pinafore, and in the role of Giannetta in Undercroft Opera's production of The Elixir of Love.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers RODRIGO OJEDA was born in Venezuelan and earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the IUDEM (Institute of Musical Studies). In 1999 he completed his graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Ojeda’s recent live TV and radio broadcast was Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Orquesta Municipal, Caracas, Venezuela. He is a Lecturer in Piano in the Carniegie Melon School of Music and on the faculty in its Music Preparatory School. Since 2006, he has played with the Pittsburgh Symphony. PROF. ALEXANDER ORBACH is associate professor emeritus of Jewish Studies in the Dept. of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He has, taught at Indiana University in Bloomington and was a guest lecturer at the University of Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany. Prof. Orbach has pub- lished on Russian Jewry, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism. Currently he is studying aspects of Jewish politics in Tsarist Russia in the 1905-1914 period and the broader issue of dual loyalty as it has challenged modern Jewry. SHERRI ROBERTS first recalls how her pride swelled every Passover as she read out of the Yiddish Hagode for the Workman’s Circle’s third seders in Cleveland, Ohio. Then, when her family settled in Haifa, Israel, she was awestruck by the beauty of the varied cultures and landscapes. Sherri used her art to expand her children’s knowledge of, and appreciation for, syna- gogue rituals and Israel. In Pittsburgh, she found a welcoming community of fiber artists and became President of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh. HELEN FAYE ROSENBLUM was educated at Barnard College, Chatham College, and the University of Pittsburgh and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the author of two novels, written dramas, and was a reviewer and critic. Her novel, Minerva’s Turn, won the Ohio State Library award for fiction. She is a founding member and past president of the Academy for Lifelong Learning, now Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Helen Faye has taught Short Story classes. DR. MICHAEL MOTL ROSENBUSH is a native Yiddish speaker, having been born in Lublin, Poland. He has developed Yiddish-speaking Yugntruf svives in New York City. Motl translates from Yiddish, Russian and Polish into English for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He has had Yiddish Workshops in Brussels, Paris, Washington, D.C., and at the IAYC Conferences as well as being a member of the IAYC Board of Directors. He also is on the board of the Yiddish of Greater Washington. CANTOR BEN ROSNER is a graduate of the JTS in NYC where he studied Sacred Music and Yiddish music. He has been the cantor of Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh. Cantor Rosner studied at the University of Miami’s conservatory program and led musical Shabbat services at Hillel. His first year of the Jewish Theological Seminary was at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem and performed with the Great Synagogue choir. His internship was at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff, New Jersey.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers HILDA RUBIN has been a Vice President of Yiddish of Greater Washington, chairs its Café Kasrilevke, leads Kum Shmooz a Yiddish conversation group and is artistic director of Di Shpilers. She was a reading specialist in the Prince George’s County schools and has taught Yiddish classes in syna- gogues and in adult education classes. Hilda adapts materials from the Yiddish classics for presentation. She has been a popular IAYC Conference presenter, and is the only one who has attended every conference. BINYUMEN BEN SCHAECHTER has been the conductor of the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus since 1995. He is an award-winning composer of musicals, revue songs and cabaret songs, which have been performed in theatres and cabarets everywhere. His sisters and he come from a family with a strong Yiddish background. His father is the internationally renowned scholar, Professor Mordkhe Schaechter z”l. He will be performing with his daughters, the Shekhter Tekhter. REYNA SCHAECHTER, is the older of the Shekhter Tekhter duo. By the time she was fifteen, she had been featured in three films: Pripetshik Sings Yiddish!, When Our Bobes and Zeydas Were Young: The Schaechter Sisters on Stage, and Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish, as well as in the off-Broadway hit revue, \"On .Second Avenue.\" Reyna has performed as a soloist in Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center), Damrosch Park (Lincoln Center), and Symphony Space. She was the Yiddish typist for the online Vi Zogt Men Af Yidish. TEMMA SCHAECHTER, the younger of \"Di Shekhter Tekhter\", has per- formed since she was five. She is featured in the musical revue, Our Zeydas and Bubbas as Children, and in the new film based on that revue, When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young: The Schaechter Sisters on Stage. In 2010, she premiered in her first solo show, in which she portrays characters from the Yiddish song book. Her rendition of \"Old MacDonald\" in Yiddish has been written up in the New York Daily News and the Yiddish Forward. SEBASTIAN SCHULMAN is the Translation Projects Coordinator at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. In this position, he directs several ini- tiatives, including a fellowship to train new translators, a website for collabo- rative translation, and a journal devoted to works of Yiddish literature in English translation. Sebastian is also a PhD Candidate in Modern Jewish History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studies Jewish life and culture in the Soviet Union after World War II. ELIZABETH SCHWARTZ recordings include the soundtrack for the docu- mentary film L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!, Garden of Yidn and Klezmer: Café Jew Zoo, and Dveykes (Adhesion). Schwartz is featured in the documentary Goldfadn 's Legacy The Yiddish Edith Piaf. She sang at New York's land- mark Orthodox Eldridge Street Synagogue with her all female klezmer quar- tet. Schwartz is a filmmaker who has performed in the two largest syna- gogues in Europe—in Budapest and Strasbourg

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers LORI CAHAN-SIMON sings with her Yiddish and klezmer ensemble, with the Cleveland Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Orchestra, as well as at the annual Yiddish in the Park Concerts in Cleveland. She is Director of the I.L. Peretz School children's chorus and teacher of Yiddish Culture and Language through visual, performing, and culinary arts. Lori earned her masters degree in Art Education. She has created a Listserv for Yiddish teachers on the Internet. KATHRYN SPITZ COHAN is the Executive Director of JFilm: The Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum. From 2003 to 2007, Kathryn also was the Artistic and Education Director of Shakespeare-in-the-Schools, the outreach program of the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Theatre Arts. She served as the Assistant Director of Administration for the Three Rivers Arts Festival, is an adjunct professor in film studies at the University of Pittsburgh and free- lances as an actor in television and radio commercials. YALE STROM is a writer, photographer, playwright and a pioneer among revivalists in conducting field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities. His twelve CDs run the gamut of traditional klezmer to \"new\" Jewish music. His research has resulted in photo documentary books, documentary films, and CD recordings. He is the author of \"The Book of Klezmer and \"The Absolutely Complete Klezmer Songbook\" DR. KHANE-FAYGL ANITA TURTLETAUB has had five humorous stories published in Yiddish, one of which was the feature story in an anthology of modern Yiddish writers, entitled Vidervuks. Dr. Turtletaub specializes in translating Yiddish manuscripts and diaries which are difficult to read. She has taught Yiddish at Northwestern University and has produced and hosted her own two-hour weekly radio program. She is the co-author of the musical comedy Love in the Catskills. PROFESSOR IOSIF VAISMAN was born in Chernovtsy in 1962 and has a PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He currently teaches bioinfor- matics and computational biology at George Mason University. In 1994 he and his wife Shura created the Virtual Shtetl – the first comprehensive web- site dedicated to Yiddish language and culture. For several years Iosif Vaisman served as a moderator of the premier online Yiddish list, Mendele. He is president of the Internatioanl Association of Yiddish Clubs. PROF. RUTH ROSKIES WISSE was born in Czernowitz, Romania, and the family immigrated to Canada. She earned an M.A. at Columbia and a Ph.D. at McGill University. She taught Yiddish literature at McGill University. In 1993, she became a professor of Yiddish at Harvard University, and collabo- rated with Irving Howe on: The Best of Sholom Aleichem. (1979) and, with Khone Shmeruk, The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse (1987). She was the first editor-in-chief of the Library of Yiddish Classics.

15th IAYC Conference - Presenters and Entertainers AVNER YONAI received his B.A. in Political Sciences and Criminology Studies from the Bar Ilan University and his M.A. in International Relations and Human Rights Studies at the University of Malta, Faculty of Law. He is a Yad Vashem-certified interviewer of Holocaust survivors for the Names Recovery Project. Avner is the founder and the project manager of the Ger Mandolin Orchestra revival—a memorial project of reconstructing the Jewish mandolin orchestra of the town of Ger, Poland circa 1920-1930. GERBEN ZAAGSMA, Ph.D. is web editor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Huygens ING. The Hague, Netherlands will be presenting via Live Feed in The Hague, Netherlands. He has an MA in Yiddish Studies from SOAS, London (2001). He is working on a project entitled ‘Jewish migrants and politics in Western Europe before the Holocaust’. Dr Zaagsma is the editor/maintainer of two internet portals which are dedicated to mak- ing online resources available to historians and other scholars. ARON ZELKOWICZ, cellist, is the Founder and Director of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival. As a chamber musician, Mr. Zelkowicz has performed at the Tanglewood, Banff, Aspen, Sarasota, Chautauqua, and Sunflower music festivals, the New York String Orchestra and Juilliard Quartet Seminars, and with members of the Emerson and Cleveland Quartets. As a teacher and coach, he has given master classes at universities and colleges and served on the faculties of Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp. DR. ALLAN AL ZEMAN earned his PhD in economics and educational psy- chology from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught economics for 36 years at Robert Morris University and held an adjunct teaching post at Penn State University. His interest in Yiddish literature emphasizes the ability of Yiddish storytelling to illuminate both Jewish history and the universal human themes of triumph, tragedy, and adjustment. From 2002-2006 he host- ed a weekly radio program of Yiddish stories in English translation. ROCHELLE ZUCKER is a graduate of the I.L. Peretz Folk School Yiddish Dayschool and Mitleshul in Winnipeg, Canada. Rochelle worked for Air Canada. She is a member of the Group for Yiddish Heritage and The Next Generation Yiddish Reading Group. Since April 2007, she has been hosting a weekly half hour Yiddish Radio show on CKJS Winnipeg www.ckjs.com. She researches Yiddish music and culture on the Internet, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the IAYC. DR. BARNETT BARNEY ZUMOFF is an internationally renowned researcher and endocrinology teacher and is Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a Past President of the Forward Association, Co-President of the Congress for Jewish Culture, Vice-President of the Folksbiene, Vice-President of the Atran Foundation, was President of the Arbeter Ring/Workmen’s Circle and has translated 21 Yiddish books into English. He is a board member of the IAYC.



In  memory  of  my  dearly  beloved  husband   Harry  Cagin   Yiddish  was  his  first  language.   He  attended  and  enjoyed  many  IAYC  Conferences.   Blessings  on  all  who  perpetuate  and  promote   Yiddish  language  and  culture.   Marilyn  Cagin  

We  Remember   Our  Dad   BARNEY  SNYDER   Family  Man   Entrepreneur   Yiddish  Speaker   CHERYL  &  JIM  SNYDER  

To My Dear Friend, Phil Kutner May Our Friendship Continue to Blossom Over the Years to Come with Good Health And To My Jewish Grandpa, Emil Marks My grandpa was born in Grabau, Germany in 1860. He immigrated to NYC in 1881 and went to Tombstone, AZ by stagecoach. He shaved the beards and cut the hair of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the Clanton boys, all kept their guns on their laps during his barbering. He was a spectator at the gunfight at the OK Corral. Grandpa died in 1946 in Bisbee, AZ. Grandma, Maggie Doherty, Emil’s wife was born in Virginia City NV, daughter of Irish-born father and mother. She died in 1934 at the age of 53. Emil Marks - Accession: #74-116-30 – Brophy Collection - Tombstone c. 1895 Photos by C.S. Fry - Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum James “Jim” McGovern “Jim is very proud of his Jewish heritage and remembers the time he spent with his Grandpa Emil.”

Moshe Katz & Paul Melrood (IAYC Past President) Moshe & Debra Katz Family We are proud to lend our support to this year’s IAYC Conference We would like to honor our dear friend, your IAYC Past President, Paul Melrood, who has dedicated his life toward preserving and sustaining our beloved Mame-loshn. We would also like to honor our “Saba”, Milton Katz, z”l, for his love of Yiddish, the Jewish People and Israel. “Lang lebn zol Yiddish!” Moshe Katz Family, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

As Playwright, Founder of the West Coast Jewish Theater and Author of “The Builder’s Daughter,” I Want to Congratulate Fishl for His Unwavering Dedication to the Survival of Yiddish Culture. Naomi Karz Jacobs www.westcoastjewishtheatre.org Ph: (800) 838-3006

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Mame hot gelibt yidish. Ven ikh shrayb, denk ikh fun ir. Fishl Kutner & Mame (Pearl Kutner nee Kaplan– born in Tiktin, Poland) Mama  dressed  and  worked  like  a  peasant  woman.     She  always  wore  a  kerchief  to  cover  her  hair  and     skirts  made  from  Purina  feedbags.  Her  hands  were     calloused  and  red.  The  cracks  in  the  skin  from  the     cold  often  opened  and  bled,  but  she  carried  herself     as  if  she  were  royalty.  That  was  why  Paul,  our  hired   hand,  called  her  Hrabina  (Polish  for  Countess).  My     90  mama  stories  published  in  Der  Bay  cab  be  found     on  the  website  (http://www.derbay.org/hrabina/)     are  in  the  book  entitled  Hrabina  of  Hunterdon.  Our     farm  was  a  mile  east  of  Baptistown,  New  Jersey  in     Hunterdon  County.   Mame  cared  for  her  four  sons,  her  husband,  Max,  the   hired  hand  and  still  did  her  share  of  the  farm  work.  

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Anglo-Yiddish Newsletter Special Edition April 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congratulates Dr. Barnett “Barney” Zumoff A dear friend A brilliant physician A dedicated yiddishist On receiving the 6th IAYC Yiddish Lifetime Service Award At the 15th Conference of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs Hilton DoubleTree Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA April 26-29, 2013 Philip Fishl Kutner, Editor Founded January 1, 1991

The  Max  Kutner  Family   (l  –  r)  Semele,  Papa  z”l,  Fishl,  Bobby  z”l,  Sol,  Mama  z”l   Congratulations  to  IAYC  on  its  15th  Conference  



  THE  WORKMEN’S  CIRCLE/ARBETER  RING   IS  PROUD  TO  HONOR  OUR  STERLING  ACTIVIST   DR.  BARNETT  ZUMOFF   ON  RECEIVING   THE  IAYC  YIDDISH  LIFETIME  SERVICE  AWARD   From  Kinder  Ring  Camper  to  WC/AR  President,   Barney  has  led  in  every  aspect  of  our  organization:   Camper,  Counselor,  KR  Physician,  NEB  member,     President,  Current  Board  member.   And  at  the  same  time  Barney  has  been  one  of   New  York’s  outstanding  physicians,  a  prolific  translator     of  Yiddish,  a  poet  –  a  true  Renaissance  Man.     We  can  truly  say  that  our  WC/AR  and  the  world  of     Yiddish  would  not  have  been  the  same  without   Barney’s  scholarship,  efforts  and  dedication.         Madelon  Braun       Ann  Toback         President           Executive  Director  

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