Anna Verschik

Anna Verschik (; born 31 May 1968) is an Estonian linguist, professor at the Tallinn University. Her interests include social sciences and culture, philology and linguistics, in particular, Ethnolects; Estonian sociolinguistics (language contacts, language dynamics); Estonian-Russian language contacts (code switching, convergence, multilingual conversation); Yiddish in the Baltic States (dialectology, sociolinguistics, cultural contacts); Ukrainian sociolinguistics. She is also a translator from Ukrainian to Estonian.

Biography Anna Verschik was born in St. Petersburg to the family of the mathematician Anatoly Vershik of Jewish descent. Her family spent vacations in Estonia, Anna had become attacted to Estonian culture and learned Estonian language by herself. She moved to Estonia, and graduated from the University of Tartu (1986–1990) with the degree in Estonian philology. While at Tartu she also studied Yiddish and Jewish culture. She earned the Ph.D. from the University of Tartu with the thesis "Estonian Yiddish and its contacts with co-territorial languages" (supervided by ) in 2000. She was teaching at the Tallinn University since 2002. Before that she held teaching positions at other colleges and universities. 2025: for the translation of Yuliya Musakovska's poem "A magnolia blooms in a foreign garden" from Ukrainian into Estonian, from the collection Kas rabelen välja sellest tusast?.

Personal Anna Verschik is married to Estonian Hebraist and they have a daughter, Noemi (15 years in 2007).