Yiddish-Tish will combine learning Yiddish songs, every-day conversation, Ashkenazi fables and dance with an informal light meal. Yiddish-Tish can become a long-term project that blends into rich tapestry of Jewish events in New York’s Russian-speaking Jewish community. The main goals are
1. Develop a program that would attract a modern Russian-speaking Jew to learning Yiddish.
2. Make learning useful; not just learn songs but incorporate them in everyday life; learn commonly used vocabulary – words of love, curses, words related to Jewish holidays, etc.
3. Create an on-going and ever-evolving program that will become the base for a continued community.
Fellows
Zhenya Lopatnik Yiddish-Tish Zhenya is from Kharkov, Ukraine. Her first encounter with the Jewish community was at 13 years of age. Since then she constantly added to her Jewish identity, since she felt a huge lack of knowledge due to her family being totally and completely assimilated. After getting a taste of it, Zhenya immersed herself into learning Tanakh, Jewish history and Hebrew. Zhenya always tries to vary her interests in the Jewish culture dabbling in various fields. Her works include a children’s book, self-learning discs, seminars using new methods of informal education and several CDs with her own Yiddish songs.
