Hello and welcome!

Adah Hetko pursues diverse interests within the Yiddish cultural world and beyond.

Her Yiddish song ensemble, Levyosn, released their debut album, Levyosn’s Lullaby through Borscht Beat in June 2023.

Adah’s performance video with Allison Posner of folksong “Indroysn Iz Fintster” has garnered over 29K views on Youtube.

In 2018 she defended her thesis “Contemporary Yiddish Women Singers and their Development of Yiddish Identity” to earn an MA in Jewish Studies from Indiana University.

As a Graduate Fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst MA, from 2018-2019, Adah contributed to Asya Schulman’s Yiddish textbook for beginners, In Eynem, and researched the history of Yiddish typewriters.

She has been a fellow at KlezKanada, a faculty member at Yiddish New York, and she coordinated multidisciplinary programs for KlezKanada’s 2020 and 2021 retreats.

Adah was a 2020 New Jewish Culture Fellow, and she currently studies Yiddish dance-leading and vocal performance with master performer Judy Bressler, with support from a Massachusetts Cultural Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship.

In addition to performing traditional songs, she composes new Yiddish songs and poetry settings, and English-language adaptations and translations.