Lazer Mishulovin is a teacher, writer and translator. He taught Yiddish in Israel, Chicago and New York and created a Yiddish conversation group titled Shmooze and Kvell. Some of his writings appeared in Der AlgemeinerJournal and they range from current events to Jewish and human interest. He translated numerous family letters, diaries and articles, including from Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir, as well as audio testimonies and talmudic lectures. He holds a degree in Jewish Studies and English Literature. He also received training as a language instructor and educator at Hebrew University and served as a Jewish educator at Jewish day schools in North America.

Miriam Trinh was born in Poland, grew up in Germany and immigrated to Israel after finishing High School. She completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy and Yiddish at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, obtained her Master’s degree in Yiddish literature at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne and Strasbourg (France), her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has taught Yiddish language and literature since 1999, in Paris, Oxford, Strassbourg, Vilna, New York, Baltimore, Tel Aviv and is currently teaching Yiddish at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Miriam Trinh has published works in the field of Modern Yiddish Literature and especially on Holocaust literature. She is also engaged in translation from and into Yiddish.

Tamara Micner (she/her) is a Yiddish teacher and writer/performer for theatre based in London. She also teaches with Babel's Blessing, and recently completed advanced Yiddish studies at the Paris Yiddish Centre/Medem Bibliotek. She descends from native Yiddish speakers and is thrilled to start teaching with Der Arbeter Ring. @tamarafm www.tamaramicner.com

Yitskhok Niborski is a Vice President of the Paris Yiddish Center, and a beloved teacher to numerous students from all over the world. His extensive Yiddish teaching experiences includes courses in Buenos Aires and Paris, where he lives. In the Paris Yiddish Center, Niborski created the Summer University of Yiddish Language and Literature, which has become one of the most important Yiddish learning centers in Europe. He is known throughout the world for his Dictionary of Yiddish words of Hebrew and Aramaic origin.  Niborski has also translated some Spanish works into Yiddish and writes original poetry in Yiddish.

Gustavo de Oliveira Emos is an undergraduate student in literature at the University of São Paulo and a language learning enthusiast. He is active in the Yiddish scene in the city. He volunteers at the Jewish Museum of São Paulo, where he also takes part in reading and translation circles. Over the course of a year, he and Reb Noyekh created hundreds of hours of original Yiddish content on Youtube. Since April 2020, he has worked as a Yiddish teacher. He taught several courses at yiddishwithnoyekh.com. He has taught since March 2021 in the project “Viver com Ídiche” at The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He began teaching in August 2021 at the IWO Foundation (Institute of Jewish Research) in Buenos Aires.

Eugene Orenstein taught Modern Jewish History for 39 years in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University with particular emphasis on the Jewish labor and socialist movement in Eastern Europe and North America and the development of modern Yiddish culture. He is an author of numerous publications including bio-bibliographical studies in Der leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur. (“Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature” Eugene has been teaching Yiddish at various intensive Summer Programs including YIVO and Tel-Aviv.

Alexandra Polyan holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University. Since 2017, she has been teaching Yiddish at the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Summer Yiddish Program (Tel Aviv University). She has also taught Yiddish language and culture in MSU, Project Judaica (Russian State University for the Humanities in cooperation with Jewish Theological Seminary), Eshkolot Project, International Solomon University (Khar’kiv), and in Jewish communities of Riga and Minsk. She served as Moscow correspondent of Forward Yiddish Radio, now she writes for Forward newspaper.

Janie Respitz is a Montreal based Yiddish scholar and entertainer. For the past thirty years she has performed in concerts throughout the world and taught courses relating to Yiddish language, folklore, literature and Eastern European Jewish history, at Queen’s University, McGill University, Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors and a variety of other learning environments.

Elya (Zissel/זיסל) Piazza (they/them) is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Boris Sandler (born in Beltz, Moldova) is a Yiddish language author, journalist, playwright and lyricist and the former editor of the Yiddish edition of the Forward.

Daniel Soyer is professor of History at Fordham University. Most recently, he is the editor of The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century (Academic Studies Press, 2021), and author of Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy (Cornell, 2021). His other books include, with Annie Polland, The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (NYU, 2012), winner of a National Jewish Book Award; Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (Harvard, 1997), winner of the Saul Viener Award of the American Jewish Historical Society; and, with Jocelyn Cohen, My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants (NYU, 2006), an anthology of selections from YIVO’s 1942 autobiography contest, translated from Yiddish.

D. Zisl Slepovitch is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States since 2008. He is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist (Ph.D., Belarusian State Academy of Music), with primary interest in the Eastern European Jewish music culture; a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvised music performer (woodwinds, keyboards, vocals); composer, conductor, music and Yiddish educator. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Litvakus, Zisl Slepovitch Trio, and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. Slepovitch has served in multiple roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest), and is now Musician-in-Residence at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. Slepovitch has taught Yiddish language and culture at The New School, worked as an educator and Artist-in-Residence at BIMA at Brandeis University, and a guest artist and lecturer at many US and international academic and cultural institutions and festivals. Slepovitch’s theater, film, and TV contributions include Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway). @zislepovitch

Robert Moses Shapiro is a professor of East European Jewish History, Holocaust Studies, and Yiddish Language and Literature at Brooklyn College. Although a native Yiddish speaker born in Germany to Polish Jews from Chrzanow and Sosnowiec, Poland, he undertook advanced Yiddish study at YIVO, Columbia University, and Oxford University, as well as numerous Arbeter-Ring intensive online courses. Since Polish Jewry was multi-lingual, Shapiro supplemented his Yiddish with Hebrew, Loshn Koydesh, Polish and German to access the wealth of primary sources in those languages.

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.

Marianne Tatom teaches Yiddish for a number of community organizations online. She recently received the Certificate of Yiddish Pedagogy from the Yiddish Book Center, the culmination of an intensive period of Yiddish pedagogical study. Marianne has a PhD in music theory and is also a freelance editor and klezmer musician. She lives in Seattle with her beloved dachshund Mendel, who frequently makes an appearance in her classes.

Rukhl Schaechter is the Yiddish editor of the online Forward newspaper and host of the YouTube series Yiddish Word of the Day. She also produces Yiddish cooking shows together with Yiddish food scholar and chef Eve Jochnowitz. Working as a Forverts writer and editor since 1998, she has garnered years of experience in writing news articles and personal essays in Yiddish and English, and won a number of Rockower Awards by the American Jewish Press Association.

Esther Ides Szwarc was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated from the Teachers Seminar and from the (High School For Jewish Studies) in Buenos Aires. She graduated from the {National Professors Institute’s} branch of French Language, Literature and Culture. Academic Director of Fundación IWO (Argentina YIVO). Organized the rescue efforts of materials from the IWO Library after the July 18, 1994 bombing. Honored as an Outstanding Cultural Personality (Personalidad destacada de la Cultura) by the Buenos Aires legislature.

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.