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by Asya Vaisman Schulman (Author)
Author Biography
Asya Vaisman Schulman, director of the Yiddish Language Institute at the Yiddish Book Center. Before joining the Yiddish Book Center, Asya taught Yiddish at Indiana University, where she was also the project manager of AHEYM, the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories. Asya holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a PhD in Yiddish from Harvard. Asya's PhD research was on the Yiddish songs and singing practices of contemporary Hasidic women.