On October 25–27, 2017 three WJC YC representatives: Dr. Mordechay Yushkovsky (its academic director), Dr. Natalia Ryndiuk (Yiddish teacher at the interdisciplinary certification program in Jewish studies at the National University "Kiev-Mohyla Academy", scientific officer at the Center for Study of History and Culture of East European Jewry), and Tetyana Batanova (teacher of Yiddish at academic Jewish studies programs at the National University of "Kiev-Mohyla Academy" and junior scientific officer at Judaica department of V. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine), provided 8 lectures at the international educational seminar "Pearls of Yiddish Culture" in Kiev.

The seminar was organized by the International Yiddish Center of the World Jewish Congress with assistance of Jewish local civil organization Jewish Fund of Ukraine in order to provide journalists of Jewish and non-Jewish mass media with Jewish historical and Yiddish cultural and linguistic knowledge. This seminar was dedicated in memoriam to Arkadiy Monastyrsky, the director of the Jewish Fund of Ukraine, who recently passed away.

About 20 representatives of various regions of Ukraine attended lectures in order to perfect their knowledge in Yiddish language and culture.

Nataliia Ryndiuk's two lectures dealt with the following topics: "We will build our new world…" ‒ Yiddish in the USSR; "Amol iz geven… (Once upon a time): From the history of collecting Jewish antiquities".

Tetyana Batanova gave three lectures: "Useful contemporary means to study Yiddish, helpful Yiddish web resources and encyclopaedias", "Geography of Yiddishland: Shtetl in history and Yiddish literature", and "History and current state of the Yiddish press".

Dr. Yushkovsky also provided three lectures, as follows: "Yiddish civilization: past and present", "Yiddish culture on the map of Ukraine", and "Chapters from the history of Yiddish literature created in Ukraine".

All the lectures have been accepted with major interest. They included notes to linguistic and cultural history of Yiddish and Jews in Central-Eastern Europe, especially in Ukraine, the most interesting old photos from ethnographic expeditions and Jewish postcards, materials from the Soviet journal for young Jewish pioneers "Freyd" ("Joy"), samples of the Soviet Jewish folklore and poems, photos of historical documents, etc.

The lectures were conducted in a friendly dialogue manner, with questions, answers, and jokes. The audience has been motivated to learn more and more about Yiddish language, culture and history.