Alexandra Polyan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Regensburg (Institute of Slavic Studies) and a member of “The Short Life of Soviet Yiddish Literature” research group. Her project is entitled “Return of the Violence: the Case of Perets Markish.”
In 2007, Alexandra Polyan graduated from Moscow State University, majoring in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. In 2016, she received her PhD in linguistics from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics. Alexandra is an author of appr. 35 articles and two co-authored books, she is also a Yiddish and Hebrew instructor and a translator.
Her recent publications include Dovid Bergelson. Die Welt möge Zeuge sein (Suhrkamp, 2023, with Sabine Koller), and “Khurbn-Plays with No Nazis in Them: Sh. Y. Harendorf and Perets Markish on the King of Lampedusa,” in: M. Schulz, A. Walther (eds.) Hidden in Plain Sight—Yiddish in the Socialist Bloc and its Transnationality, 1941-1991. De Gruyter, 2024. P. 91-113.
She lives in Frankfurt with her partner and their two sons.
