[1][2] Pomérantseva was born on 7 (OS)/19 April (NS) 1899, and graduated in 1922 from the philological and historical faculty of Moscow State University.
[1] Her 1964 thesis at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography had the title Судьбы русской сказки в XVIII-XX вв.
[4] Her work Русские народные сказки (Russian Folk Tales, 1957) was translated into German as Russische Volksmärchen (Akademie Verlag, 1966) and was in its 13th edition in 2021.
[5] Writing in 2009 in Féeries [fr] on the study of Russian fairy tales, Marina Guister wrote that Pomerantseva was a "remarkable folklorist", praising her collection of songs and urban legends and her writings on folk tales.
[6] Erna Pomérantseva died on 11 August 1980, aged 81.