Tag Archives: Anna Shternshis

Waks Family Fund in Yiddish and Jewish East European History and Culture... Read More »

Read Hannah Pollin-Galay's article about the concert "Defending the Homeland: Rare Yiddish Songs of WWII" held at the "8th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium 2015: Global Yiddish Culture, 1938 – 1948" in April 2015... Read More »

Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish and Diaspora Studies Contact info anna.shternshis@utoronto.ca Office Anne Tanenbaum CJS Jackman Humanities Building Room 218, 170 St. George Street Toronto, ON, M5R 2M8 Phone (416) 978 8131 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours On leave fall 2021 Classes 2021-2022 On leave fall 2021 Background Anna Shternshis holds the position of Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her doctoral degree (D.Phil) in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). She is the co-editor-in-chief of East European Jewish Affairs. Shternshis created and directed the Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory project, together with an artist Psoy Korolenko, the initiative that brought back to life the forgotten Yiddish music written during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. She lectures widely around the world and is a frequent guest on radio and TV shows worldwide (CBC, NPR, BBC, ... Read More »

November 10, 2014: German Department co-sponsors talk by David Roskies: "Collaboration with Evil through a Polish Literary Lens" Read More »

Call for Papers: Global Yiddish Culture in 1938 – 1948 8th Annual Symposium of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures University of Toronto Read More »