Anna Shternshis

Anna Shternshis is a J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She used to hold the title of Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies. Her research interests include Jewish culture in the Soviet Union; Jewish-Slavic cultural relations; Yiddish mass culture, theatre, and music.

She received her M.A. degree from Russian State University for the Humanities

Books Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2006 When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017