Alexandra Polyan

Alexandra Polyan holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University. Since 2017, she has been teaching Yiddish at the Naomi Prawer Kadar International Summer Yiddish Program (Tel Aviv University). She has also taught Yiddish language and culture in MSU, Project Judaica (Russian State University for the Humanities in cooperation with Jewish Theological Seminary), Eshkolot Project, International Solomon University (Khar’kiv), and in Jewish communities of Riga and Minsk. She served as Moscow correspondent of Forward Yiddish Radio, now she writes for Forward newspaper.