has been teaching Yiddish since 2019, with a focus on welcoming beginners to the language. His classes are known for their go-light, go-easy approach and a very Simpsons-style sense of humor. He teaches using games, collaboration, and creative word play, so that the learning should be slow, sweet, and digestible He is currently a Senior, studying Yiddish language and literature at Lund University, Sweden, and will graduate in Spring 2025. Avi lives in Chicago (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi land) with his girlfriend Barrie and a nice, old dog Miette. He likes cooking, cycling, hardcore punk, and any kind of noodle.

studied Jewish Studies, Religious Studies and History at the University of Potsdam, Germany, in New York City (Lenapehoking), and St. Petersburg, Russia). She works in the fields of Yiddish language, culture and history and Jewish music/ethnic music: as historian, translator, language teacher, journalist, radio journalist and photographer as well as in research projects (DFG, SNF, FI TCH) and museums. She has been involved with all things Yiddish since 2003: radio, theater, publishing poems, short stories, photo-essays and journalistic articles in various Yiddish newspapers and magazines, ethnographic expeditions and interview projects for music CDs and movies.

is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Yiddish, Esperanto, French, and Russian. His original writing, scholarship, and translations have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies and journals, including Two Lines, Words Without Borders, and Electric Literature. Schulman’s translation of Spomenka Stimec’s Esperanto-language novel Croatian War Nocturnal was published by Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum. He has held leadership positions in several Jewish cultural organizations, including as the executive director of KlezKanada, and currently serves as the director of special projects and partnerships at the Yiddish Book Center. He lives in Montréal, Québec (Tiohtià:ke).