Paula Teitelbaum

Paula Teitelbaum is a native Yiddish speaker and an experienced teacher of Yiddish, Spanish, and English to speakers of other languages. Her courses integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing to help students understand basic conversational Yiddish, its vocabulary and its grammatical structures. Teitelbaum holds a Master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University and is an accomplished singer. Her singing can be heard on the recordings Vaserl, Zumerteg, Fli,Fli, My Flishlang and on the soundtrack of the documentary film Image Before My Eyes. In addition to teaching at the Workmen’s Circle, she has taught Yiddish at the YIVO Summer Intensive Program, New York University, Stern College for Women, the Shevach High School for Girls, the 92nd Street Y, the Central Queens Y, Yugntruf, and Klezkamp.