Anna Shternshis
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Anna Shternshis |
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BackgroundAnna Shternshis was born in Moscow, Russia . She received her first degree in Russian History and Jewish Studies from Russian State University of Humanities in 1996. She then studied at the Yiddish Teacher's Seminar at Oxford Institute for Yiddish studies, where she received a Yiddish Teaching Diploma in 1997, and at Oxford University , where she received her Doctoral degree in Modern Languages and Literatures in 2000. Shortly after that she started her career as an Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language and Literatures at the German Department of the University of Toronto . Currently, 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 Professional AppointmentsAssistant Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto , Canada, July 2001 - present Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania , Annual theme: "Modern Jewry and Arts," 2000- 2001 Courses Taught
BookSoviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006 Review by Shimon Redlich, American Historical Review Articles and Book Chapters (Refereed)"Kaddish in a Church: Perceptions of Orthodox Christianity among Moscow Elderly Jews in the Early 21st Century ", Russian Review , 2007 66 (2), 273-294 'May Day, Tractors and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists', in Barbara Kirshenblatt Gim b lett and Jonathan Karp, eds., The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 ), also in Russian translation (in Dona Fest 2006: Jewish Music in the Former Soviet Union (Moscow, 2006) '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 '(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) '(Rabbi Denikin and Rabbi Kolchak: Exodus in Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda among Jews in the 1920s - 1930s)' (From Genesis to Exodus) (Moscow: Sefer, 1998), pp. 243-252 (in Russian) 'Far dem bestn traktorist vel ikh golosirn: Yiddish Ditties in the 1930s in the Soviet Union ' Zhivaia Starina , The Journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 (1998), (in Russian) Soviet Jewish songs 1917 - 1941 , Preprint 25 (Moscow: Jewish Heritage Society, 1996), (in Russian). Shternshis A., Chlenov M., 'The System of the Yiddish Education in Russia in the 1990s', Evreiskaia Shkola , 4 (1996), pp. 12 - 15 (in Russian) Book ReviewsOlga Gershenson , Russian Theatre in I sr ael , A Study of Cultural Colonization, Peter Lang. Publishing, 2005, book review Russian Review , forthcomig 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"Pigs", "Dogs", "Beggars and Begging", articles for The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe , edited by Gershon Hundert, Yale University Press, scheduled for 2008 (referreed) |
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