About me
Anna Rozenfeld is a Yiddish speaker, a scholar of Jewish history and Yiddish culture, and an interdisciplinary artist. A professional Yiddish performer on Polish Radio and at the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw. She has studied the history of art, graphic arts and painting, pedagogics, philosophy, literature and Jewish studies at universities in Marburg, Salzburg, Vienna and Warsaw. Graduated with honours of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities and PhD Studies in Yiddish at Warsaw University. Co-founder of the "ייִדיש לעבט" project, and a member of the “Yiddish Berlin” group, she is deeply committed to preserving and promoting Yiddish culture in Poland, Germany and internationally today. She hosted “Naye Khvalyes,” a Yiddish radio program broadcast by the Polish Radio, worked in the Education Department of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and taught as a lecturer for Yiddish at the Center for Yiddish Culture in Warsaw. Recipient of several awards, including the Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship und das Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and also recently the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History-Munich – Mandel Center Exchange Scholar Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2024). She is associated with the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and the LMU Munich. She carries out her own artistic, research and educational projects, and collaborates with numerous institutions and festivals of Jewish and Yiddish culture internationally, and works for the Komische Oper and the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin. Together with her children, Lea and Dawid, she has been a constant part of YNY since its first edition.
