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The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring has diverse offers of classes and workshops from our mainstays of Yiddish to our innovative Klezmer Workshop
Yiddish Classes and Klezmer Workshop
Meet Our Faculty
New York Shules
Meet Our Faculty
Nikolai Borodulin
Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin is Assistant Director of the Workmen’s Circle’s Center for Cultural Jewish Life, planning the WC/AR educational programs and resources for adults and children. He teaches Yiddish to adults and children at WC/AR and in programs around the world and is the author of Yiddish Year Round – a curriculum for young beginners.
Amy Goldstein
Amy Goldsteinis an internationally acclaimed singer of opera, Cantorial chanting, Holocaust and New Music. Ms. Goldstein is currently a Cantorial student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Please visit her website.
Amy is our Community Choir Director
Miriam Hoffman
Miriam Hoffman teaches Yiddish language and literature at Columbia University and is author of the innovative Yiddish enrichment text Key to Yiddish. She is a journalist and feature writer for the Yiddish Forward and an accomplished playwright.
Jeff Warshauer
Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) is internationally renowned as a mandolinist, guitarist, Yiddish singer and teacher. He is a member of the faculty at Columbia University, and is Co-Artistic Director of KlezKanada. Jeff is also a composer whose music has been heard in films and theater productions, on Public Radio International and on HBO. Jeff's solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin, has received widespread critical acclaim. Visit Jeff’s website for more information.
(Make website active: http://www.klezmerduo.com/)
Jeff is the Klezmer Workshop leader.
Gosia Zaremba
Gosia Zaremba is a full-time Yiddish instructor at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and NYU Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture, New York. She taught Yiddish in Warsaw, Poland.
Classes for Children (Shules)
The WC/AR offers a progressive, cultural Jewish education for children in our supplementary schools. Programs include Jewish history, arts, traditions and values, Yiddish and Hebrew language skills. Each child’s shule (school) experience culminates in a secular bar/bas mitsve celebration.
Midtown WC Shule (Manhattan) 212.725.4657 www.midtownschool.org
IL Peretz Jewish School (Nassau County, Long Island) 516.794.0506 www.arbeterring.org
Jewish Cultural School (Suffolk County, Long Island) 631.697.1036 http://www.jewishculturalschool.org/
Vladimir Medem WC School (Westchester) 914.961.3252 www.wsjs.org |
