He has been immersed in Yiddish for the past ten years and read his first Yiddish book, “Geshtaltn Fun A Mol” written by his distant cousin Sam Batt. Dr. Batt will speak extensively on the plays of Arn Tseytlin (1898-1973). The material was gleaned from workshops given by Berkeley Professor Niborski of the Institut National De Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. Dr. Batt will demonstrate Tseytlin’s varied style from tragedy to grotesque to farce with readings from two of Tseytlin’s untranslated plays, “Jacob Jacobsen”(1931) and Vaitzman der Weight”(1934)