Ester-Basya (Asya) Vaisman

Publications

Academic Papers
  • Творчество Сиди Таль в контексте еврейской культуры Черновцов в 1940е-1980е годы (Sidi Tal and Yiddish Culture in Czernowitz). Moscow, Russia, 2008. in press
  • The Jewish Mother in Hasidic Girls’ Songs In Музыка идишкайта (Muzyka idishkayta), Moscow, 2008, in press (in Russian)
  • Песенная культура современных хасидских женщин (Yiddish Songs of Modern Hasidic Women).In Музыка идишкайта (Muzyka idishkayta), Moscow: Memories, 2007, p.40-48 (in Russian)
  • История еврейской песни (History of Yiddish song).In Музыка идишкайта (Muzyka idishkayta),Moscow: Aljans-Press, 2005, p.92-110. (in Russian)
  • Articles in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Camps, Ghettoes, and Other Internment Sites, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Presentations
  • A Hasidic Woman’s Life Cycle in Song, Association for Jewish Studies 39th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2007
  • Tradition and Adaptation in the Uses of Yiddish: Satmar Hasidic Women’s Songs. Conference on Jewish Languages and Identity in a Globalized World, The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MA, 2007
  • Hasidic Women’s Songs and Singing Practices, Association for Jewish Studies 38th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2006
  • Sidi Tal and Yiddish Culture in Czernowitz, Yiddish: Language and Culture in the Soviet Union International Conference, Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia, 2006
  • English in the Yiddish speech of Hasidic Women. Yiddish / Jewish Cultures: Literature, History, Thought in Eastern European Diasporas; Graduate Student Conference, New York University, New York, NY, 2006
  • Yiddish Song in the Lives of Modern Hasidic Women (invited by the Jewish Feminist Research Group). Women's Studies Department, Jewish Theological Seminary , New York, NY, March 1, 2007

  • Yiddish Songs of Hasidic Women. KlezKanada, Lantier, Quebec, Canada, 2006
  • Commercials on Yiddish Radio. KlezKanada, Lantier, Quebec, Canada, 2006
  • Yiddish Language and Songs of Modern Hasidic Women in NY and Jerusalem. International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference, Teaneck, NJ, 2006
  • Dialects of the Yiddish Language. Klezfest, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006 (in Yiddish)
Articles in Newspapers and Magazines
  • Private Voices: the Songs of Contemporary Hasidic Women. Tsukunft, in press
  • Women's Voice and Song. Sh'ma Feb 2007.
  • International Association of Yiddish Clubs Conference. Forverts 14 July 2006. (in Yiddish)
  • Klezmer Wochen Weimar. Forverts 26 Aug 2005. (in Yiddish)
  • How many Yiddish speakers are there in the U.S.? Forverts 27 Sept 2002. (in Yiddish, translated into Russian for Evrejskij Kamerton, Israel)
  • Sidi Tal. Forverts 25 Aug 2006. (in Yiddish)
Radio Interviews
  • The Forward Hour (WMCA, NY and NJ). [Review on the 35th minute.]
  • The Yiddish Voice (WUNR, Brookline, MA)
  • Kol Israel (The Yiddish Hour)
  • Yidish Lebn, Programul Unu, Radio Moldova
Online projects

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