Alexander (Sender) Botwinik is a Yiddish lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching Yiddish, Alexander teaches music and choir at Har Zion Temple, and music at the Kaiserman JCC, and coordinates the annual choral youth-Zimria (song festival) sponsored by United Synagogue. In the fall of 2008, Alexander performed with the singer Sherm Labovitz in two Yiddish concerts: at the University of Pennsylvania and at Haverford College, and in June 2009, at a concert in Germantown. Haverford College was also the location of another concert, in May 2009, featuring tenor Richard Lenatsky and soprano Judith Bro Pinhasik, with special guest Dina Malka Botwinik. The concert featured music by David Botwinik, whose compositions have been compiled and engraved by his son, Alexander. The song book, entitled From Holocaust to Life (Fun Khurbn tsum Lebn) is being published in 2009 by the League for Yiddish, New York.

updated 09-2009