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Lectures

Adah has presented lectures at conferences and festivals, and for university classes and adult eduction classes on topics drawn from her research on Yiddish song and Yiddish singers.

She also offers interactive presentations that include introductions to Yiddish language, culture, and song.

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Yiddish Dance

In addition to leading Yiddish dance during Burikes performances, Adah teaches Yiddish dance workshops for multigenerational community groups.

She has studied Yiddish dance and Yiddish dance leading with Avia Moore and Asya Schulman.

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Yiddish Song

Adah teaches Yiddish song workshops for Yiddish language students and non-Yiddish speakers, drawing from her broad repertoire and contextual knowledge.

She has experience teaching Yiddish song online!

“The room quieted as Adah Hetko, a local klezmer and Yiddishist, herded us together.

My shyness loosened; I fell in line with the music. Each of us carried the other, leading and following in a chain…

Around 10 p.m., sweat breaking on my brow and cheeks pained from smiling, the class ended. I stumbled out into the damp night laughing, giddy from endorphins.”

— Olivia G. Oldham, The Harvard Crimson