Yiska Ejdelman’s Yiddish journey began on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. After encouraging her Native American students to learn and embrace their ancestral language, Yiska embarked on a Yiddish quest to learn her own “native” language. She studied at Yiddish Farm, YIVO, and has taken private lessons. Yiska married into a Yiddish-speaking family and is now raising two children exclusively in Yiddish. She has used Yiddish professionally as a program coordinator for Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish, and is one of the founders of Enga Benga Land, a Yiddish-immersion nursery program.