Anna Shternshis is an Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.
degree from Russian State University for the Humanities[2] and Ph.D. degree in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001.
She is the co-editor-in-chief of East European Jewish Affairs.
[1] Shternshis together with composer/performer and slavist Psoy Korolenko created and directed Yiddish Glory, a project to release the forgotten Yiddish songs written during the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.
It was nominated and shortlisted for the 61st Annual Grammy Award in the world music category.