Yiska Ejdelman

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.