Sonia Bloom

Since graduating from Oberlin College in 2018, Sonia Bloom has worked as a museum educator, language tutor and teacher, and translator in New York City, Buenos Aires, and Western Massachusetts. Sonia was the 2021-2022 Yiddish Education and Translation Initiatives fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and continues to work there as a Yiddish Education Specialist, assisting in teacher training, program planning, and activity design. She was a teaching assistant for the YIVO-Weinreich Program in 2021 and the Yiddish Book Center’s Steiner Summer Yiddish Program in 2022 and 2023 and has taught short courses for beginner Yiddish students at Yale University, Amherst College, and the Yiddish Book Center. She also teaches Yiddish to children ages 5-10 at the Kinderland and Workers Circle shules in New York City.