Hanan-Michael Bordin

Hanan-Michael Bordin was born in Riga, Latvia in 1958.  He repatriated to Israel at the age of twenty. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with a BA in Hebrew linguistics and MA in Yiddish. After graduation, he stayed at his Alma Mater, where he taught at the Yiddish Department of the Hebrew University for 34 years.

He has also taught Yiddish language at Harvard University, at numerous summer Yiddish courses at Columbia University, New York University, Moscow State University, Maimonides Academy in Moscow, Vilnius University, Birobidzhan Far Eastern State Academy for Humanities, University of Oxford, University of Tel Aviv, National Book Center in Amherst. Currently he teaches both Jewish languages ​​- Yiddish and Hebrew - at the University of Regensburg. He is the author of several Yiddish textbooks - Vort ba vort (for beginners), Mit vort un maysim (for advanced), educational phrasebooks - Hebrew-Yiddish and Russian-Yiddish, a dictionary of toponyms - English-Yiddish Dictionary of Place-Names.