Asya Vaisman Schulman
Asya Vaisman Schulman is a Yiddish dance teacher, singer, and songwriter and has participated in and taught at Klezmer and Yiddish culture festivals around the world. She is the director of the Yiddish Language Institute and the Steiner Summer Yiddish Program at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. She is the lead author of In eynem: The New Yiddish Textbook, published by White Goat Press in 2020. Schulman received her PhD in Yiddish Language and Culture from Harvard University, where she wrote her dissertation on the Yiddish songs and singing practices of contemporary Hasidic women.
Asya dancing with Sarah Myerson, Deborah Strauss and Avia Moore.