Yankl-Peretz Blum

Yankl-Peretz Blum began teaching himself Yiddish while a college student in California. He’s been on the board of Yugntruf — Youth for Yiddish since 2006 (for several years serving as its chair), and was active in the Yiddish Farm since its founding in 2011. He began teaching Yiddish in 2007. He has taught classes at the Yiddish Farm, YIVO, Workers Circle, Yiddish Summer Weimar, Yidish Ort, Paris Yiddish Center, and Yugntruf. He has an MA in Linguistics from CUNY Graduate Center, and helps develop the website YiddishPOP.com. He speaks Yiddish at home with his wife and two children in Jerusalem, and spends his free time learning languages.