Born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, he later lived in Moscow, where he turned to writing in Yiddish and worked as Managing Editor of the Yiddish literary journal Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland) from 1988 to 1991. In 1991-2002, he lived in England, where he worked at the Oxford-based Institute of Yiddish Studies and the London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1996, he received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. His fields of expertise are Jewish intellectual history, Yiddish language and literature, and Soviet Jewish history. His publications include Intensive Yiddish (Oxford, 1996), Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (Oxford, 1999), In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (Syracuse University Press, 2005), Yiddish in the Cold War (Oxford: Legenda, 2008), Yiddish Literary Life in Moscow, 1917-1991 (St. Petersburg: European University Press, 2016, in Russian), Yiddish Culture in Ukraine (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2016, in Ukrainian), Transatlantic Russian Jewishness: Ideological Voyages of the Yiddish Daily Forverts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Boston, 2020), fifteen co-edited scholarly volumes, and several books in Yiddish.

Gennady Estraikh
Clinical Professor
University of Oxford, PhD 1996
Jewish intellectual history in the 19th and 20th centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus; Publishing and civil-society organizations
Authored Books
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Legenda, 2008
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Syracuse UP, 2005
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Oxford UP, 1999
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Oxford Yiddish, 1996
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Three Sisters Press, 1993
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Concise Yiddish-Russian Dictionary (2nd Revised Edition)Soviet Writer, 1990
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Concise Yiddish-Russian DictionarySoviet Writer, 1989
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Di royte balkeSoviet Writer, 1988
Co-edited books
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Legenda, 2012
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Chaim Beider’s Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union with a Dictionary of Soviet Terms by Gennady EstraikhCYCO, 2011
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Legenda, 2010
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Legenda, 2007
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Yiddish and the LeftLegenda, 2001
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Legenda, 2000
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Legenda, 1999
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Oxford Yiddish III
Contact Information
Gennady Estraikh
Clinical Professor ge293@nyu.edu 53 Washington Sq South, Room 106Phone: (212) 998-9059