Asya Vaisman was born in Chernovtsy in 1983 and lived in
Moscow before moving to the US in 1991. She received her BA (summa cum laude) in
Yiddish and Linguistics, with a minor in Psychology, from Barnard College (Columbia
University) and her AM in Yiddish from Harvard.
She is currently writing her PhD dissertation at Harvard University on the Yiddish
songs and singing practices of Hasidic women.
Asya is also a Yiddish singer and songwriter. She has composed music to the lyrics of
several Yiddish poets, and one of her songs recently appeared as the title track on the
CD "Shtile Trit" of the Munich klezmer band, Massel Tov. She performs and teaches
Yiddish songs in the US and abroad.
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