Hinde Ena Burstin

Honorary Research Associate


Hinde Ena Burstin is a Yiddish writer, researcher and teacher, and an award-winning translator of Yiddish poetry. Over 60 of her works in Yiddish and English have been published in international and Australian books, journals and newspapers. She has taught Yiddish language, literature and culture and Yiddish literature in translation, in Melbourne, Sydney and New York, and given guest lectures on Yiddish literature on four continents.

• Yiddish writing by women;
• Social activism in literature;
• Yiddish community in Australia;
• South African Yiddish literature;
• Yiddish children’s poetry.

• Social activism through Yiddish poetry.

• In press:
  A Child’s Garden of Yiddish Verse (compiler, editor and translator)
  Miami: Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture.
• In press:
  'Rokhl Holzer, Riveting Recital Artiste and Unforgettable Star of the Yiddish Stage', in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Edited by Moshe Shalvi. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing.
• 2006
  'Mame Loshn in Australia: More Than Just a Memory' in New Under the Sun. Melbourne: Black Ink Press.

• February 2006
  'Writing Themselves In: Yiddish Literature by Women on Their Relationship to Judaism' Australian Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Melbourne.
• June 2005
  'Well-Versed in Values: Ethics in Yiddish Children’s Poetry' ('Etish un Poetish: Kinder Dertsiyung Durkh Dikhtung') Mandelbaum International Conference in Yiddish Studies, Sydney.
• July 2004
  'Songs of the South - Doremdike Dikhtung' Mandelbaum International Conference in Yiddish Studies, Sydney.
• 2000
  'Literature and Politics' Voices and Spaces, Indigenous and Multi-Cultural Writing for the New Millennium Conference, University of Canberra, Canberra.