Yuri Vedenyapin

Yuri Vedenyapin is a Yiddish scholar, teacher, and performer. He is Preceptor in Yiddish at Harvard University and has also taught Yiddish language and culture at Cambridge University, Columbia University, Moscow State University, the Naomi Prawer Kadar Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University, the Yiddish Book Center, the Yiddish Summer Program in Warsaw, and elsewhere. Interested in Yiddish dialects and oral history, he has interviewed Yiddish writers, actors, and members of Hasidic communities. He studied acting at the Shchepkin Theater School in Moscow and performs songs in Yiddish and other languages.