DR. KATHRYN HELLERSTEIN Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish Studies  101A Bennett Hall   University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305  215-898-7103 /7332 (message)  email: khellers@mail.sas.upenn.edu

Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein is the Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Wellesley, Brandeis, and
Stanford, Hellerstein is known as a poet and a translator, as well as a scholar of Yiddish poetry.

Hellerstein's books include her translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's poems, In New York: A Selection, (Jewish Publication Society, 1982), Paper
Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Wayne State University Press, 1999), and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is
co-editor (W. W. Norton, 2000). 

She is also a major contributor to American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology (University of California Press, 1986). 

Hellerstein's many scholarly articles on Yiddish literature, and most recently, on women poets in Yiddish, are published in journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias,
including Prooftexts, Shofar, Source, Chulyot,. Borders, Boundaries and Frames...: Essays from the English Institute, Jewish Women in America: An
Historical Encyclopedia, and Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature. 

Individual translations by Hellerstein have been published in Forward, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Der Pakn Treger, Two Lines, Princeton
University Library Chronicle. Her own poems have appeared in the journals Poetry, Tikkun, Bridges, Religion and Literature, Judaism, Gastronomica, and
the anthologies Without a Single Answer_ (Judah Magnes Museum, 1990), Four Centuries of Jewish Women's Spirituality (Beacon, 1992), and Reading Ruth
(Ballantine, 1994). Her work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books. 

Kathryn Hellerstein's current projects include Anthology of Women Yiddish Poets and a critical book, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish,
supported in 1999-2000 by a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.