Hannah S. Pressman
Dr. Hannah S. Pressman is the co-editor, with Lara Rabinovitch and Shiri Goren, of Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture. She is the editor of stroumjewishstudies.org and affiliate faculty for the University of Washington’s Stroum Jewish Studies Program.
Articles by Hannah S. Pressman
Dreaming in Mother Tongues
Zi kholmt – she dreams.In Irena Klepfisz’s remarkable poem, “Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn / A few words in the mother tongue,” the speaker ...
Yiddish and Us
The three of us waited expectantly and somewhat nervously in the seminar room, wondering why we had been summoned by ...
Yiddish and Me
When I first began studying Yiddish, I felt like I was remembering something I already knew.It was a lovely sensation, this ...