Anna Shternshis
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Anna Shternshis |
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BackgroundAnna Shternshis received her doctoral degree (D.Phil) in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001. She joined the department in 2001. Since 2007, she is cross-appointed between the German Department and the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 ( Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006). She is currently working on two book projects. One is devoted to the Jewish Daily Life in the Soviet Union during 1930s- 1980s, and the other one to the Evacuation of Soviet Jews during World War II. EducationD.Phil. in Modern Languages and Literatures, Oxford University , 2001 Yiddish Teaching Diploma, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, Oxford , 1996 - 1997 Diploma (MA Equivalent) in Russian and Jewish History, Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow, Russia and Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1991 - 1996 Current Professional AppointmentsThe Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish at the University of Toronto, July 2007 – present Associate Director, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto Courses Taught
BookSoviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006 Articles and Book Chapters (Refereed)“Between Red and Yellow Stars: Ethnic Identity of Soviet Jewish Veterans of World War II in New York, Toronto and Berlin,” in The Journal of Jewish Identities, Special Issue: Russian-Jewish Immigrant Identity post-1970, Rachel S. Harris & Anna P. Ronell (eds.) Journal of Jewish Identities, Vol. 4 No. 1, (January 2011), 45 - 63 “White Concert Piano from the Real Shtetl: Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Soviet Jewish Urban Community”, Jewish Social Studies, 16 (2) Winter 2010, 111-126 "Sur les bancs de Brighton Beach" (On the Benches of Brighton Beach), Cahiers du judaïsme, 26, 2009, 74-84 ‘May Day, Tractors and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists’, in Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett and Jonathan Karp, eds., The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, pp. 83 – 97 “Kaddish in a Church: Perceptions of Orthodox Christianity among Moscow Elderly Jews in the Early 21st Century ”, Russian Review 66 (2) 2007, 273–294 ‘Choosing a Spouse in the USSR: Gender Differences and the Jewish Ethnic Factor,’ Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, Winter 2(51) 2003, pp. 5 - 30 ‘Molodezhnaya kultura evreiskogo mestechka v 1930-e gody’ (Soviet Shtetl Youth Culture in the 1930s), Diaspory, 4 (2002), pp. 6- 26 (in Russian) ‘From the Eradication of Illiteracy to Workers’ Correspondents: Yiddish-Language Mass Movements in the Soviet Union’, East European Jewish Affairs, volume 33, no. 1, 2002, pp. 120– 137 ‘Отражение в песнях на идиш основных социальных процессов в Советском обществе 20-30-х годов.’ (Reflection of Soviet Society in Yiddish Songs During the 1920s and 1930s), Judaica Rossica 1 (2001) pp. 202-222 (in Russian) ‘Passover in the Soviet Union, 1917 – 41’, East European Jewish Affairs, volume 31, No. 1, summer 2001, pp. 61-76 ‘Soviet and Kosher in the Ukrainian Shtetl’, in Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds., The Shtetl: Image and Reality ( Oxford: Legenda, 2000), pp. 133- 151 ‘The Jewish Experience as Reflected in Soviet Yiddish songs.’ Evreiskaia muzyka (1998) 100-104 ‘The Red Hagaddah: Anti-Religious Propaganda in the Soviet Union’, Di Pen Oxford, 2 (1998), (in Yiddish) "Рабби Деникин" и "рабби Колчак": мотивы Исхода в советской антирелигиозной пропаганде среди евреев в 20-30-е годы XX века. (Rabbi Denikin and Rabbi Kolchak: Exodus in Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda among Jews in the 1920s – 1930s) От Бытия к Исходу (From Genesis to Exodus) (Moscow: Sefer, 1998), pp. 243-252 (in Russian) Book ReviewsArkadii Zeltser, Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917–1941 (Jews of the Soviet provinces: Vitebsk and shtetlekh 1917–1941). Moscow: Rosspen, 2006, in Studies in C ontemporary Jewry, 2011, Vol. 25 , 177-178 Kenneth B. Moss, Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2009, The American Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 1 (February 2011), 245 Joel Schechter, Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theater Survived Adversity through Satire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, Modern Drama, Volume 52, number 3, Fall 2009, 380-381 Joseph Sherman, Gennady Estraikh, eds. David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism. Leeds: Legenda, 2007, published by H-Judaica, January 2009 Benjamin Harshav, The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, Slavic Review, 2008, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1038 Olga Gershenson , Russian Theatre in I sr ael , A Study of Cultural Colonization, Peter Lang. Publishing, 2005, book review Russian Review , forthcoming Jeffrey Veidlinger, The Moscow State Yiddish Theater : Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2000, Jewish Quarterly Review. Volume 97, Number 3, Summer 2007, pp. e116-e118 Wallace Daniel, The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia ( College Station : Texas University Press, 2006), book review Russian Review 66 (2007) 3, 542-543 Joseph Sherman , ed., Yiddish after the Holocaust ( Oxford : Yarnton Centre for Jewish Studies , 2004), book review Outpost , July 2005, 31-33 Mikhail Beyzer, Evrei Leningrada: Natsional'naia zhizn' i sovetizatsiia 1917 - 1939 Book review in East European Jewish Affairs volume 32, Fall 2001, 45-46 'Some notes on the Development of the Modern Jewish Folklore Study', Di Pen Oxford , 4 (1997), (in Yiddish) Encyclopedia Entries“Beggars and Begging”, in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon David Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, volume I, 136 - 138 “Dogs” in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon David Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, volume I, 413 – 415 “Pigs”, in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon David Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, volume II, pp. 1355 – 1356 Non-Refereed Publications“Jewish Culture and Alternative Passover in the Soviet Union” in Secular Culture and Ideas, 2011, It Is No Longer Just about the Master’s Thesis, Canadian Jewish News, 13 January 2011, “Koscheres Schweinefleisch”, in Identitaten, Berlin: Berlin Jewish Museum, 2010, 240 - 241 ‘Gefilte Fish or White Piano’ in Secular Culture and Ideas, 2008, Piety, Klezmer and Queer: Yiddish in the 21 st Century,” Idea&s, Fall 2006, pp. 36 -39 Conferences And Workshops OrganizedJews and Africans in Modern Literary Imagination, University of Toronto, March 3, 2011, International Symposium (together with Ato Quayson) Ethnography, Culture and Oral History of Yiddish Speakers in Contemporary Eastern Europe, University of Toronto, March 7, 2010. International symposium. Staging Minority Voices: Jews and Turks Performing in Germany , University of Toronto, 19-21 April 2009, international interdisciplinary academic conference (together with Erol Boran) “Yiddish in North American Higher Education: Problems and Challenges,” round table at the annual meeting of American Association of Jewish Studies Association, Toronto, December 2007 Technology and Language Learning , University of Toronto, workshop, March 2007 (together with Mike Hager) ReJewvenation: Futures of Jewish Culture, University of Toronto, 28–31 October, 2005. International interdisciplinary academic conference and mini-festival (together with Andrea Most and Louis Kaplan). Soviet and Kosher: A Century of Jewish Culture in Russia , University of Toronto, 26–27 October, 2003. Academic conference and mini-festival (together with Peter Solomon and Sterling Beckwith). Selected Topics for Public LecturesRed Star over the Shtetl: Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Yiddish Culture Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Yiddish Music Dark Family Secrets in the Land of Eternal Happiness: How Soviet Jews Did Not Forget the Holocaust Between the Red and the Yellow Stars: Soviet Jewish Veterans of World War II in the US, Canada and Germany Escape and Evacuation of Soviet Jews to the Soviet Rear during World War II White Piano from the Russian Shtetl: Trends in the Post-Soviet Jewish Popular Culture Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s and 1930s Identity and Culture of Soviet Jews Marriage, Divorce and Jewish Identity among Soviet Jews Ethnicity and Choice of Careers among Soviet Jews
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