Isaac Bleaman

Isaac Bleaman is a doctoral student in Linguistics at New York University. His research focuses on variation in how Yiddish is spoken in New York today, both by Hasidim and by Yiddishists. Isaac holds a Master’s degree in Yiddish Studies from Oxford and a Bachelor’s in Linguistics and Comparative Literature from Stanford. In addition to his studies, Isaac writes a biweekly column in the Yiddish Forverts and serves as director of Leyenzal – A Yiddish Literacy Project, an educational nonprofit that commissions Yiddish-language lectures by sought-after teachers and makes them available to view for free online. He has taught beginning and intermediate language students at the Yiddish Farm and has tutored and lectured in Yiddish at various venues.