Kathryn Ann Hellerstein (Yiddish: קאַטרין העלערשטײן; born 1952) is an American academic and scholar of Yiddish-language poetry, translation, and Jewish American literature. Specializing in Yiddish, she is currently a professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and former Ruth Meltzer Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her research focus on Yiddish women writers, notably Kadya Molodowsky, Malka Heifetz Tussman, and Celia Dropkin. Hellerstein was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Herman Kopel Hellerstein (1916–1993), was a cardiologist born in Dillonvale, Ohio. Her mother, Mary Feil Hellerstein (1922–2011), was a pediatrician born and raised in Cleveland. Hellerstein's father served in the United States Army during World War II and liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her distant relatives were from Brest-Litovsk in the Russian Empire (present-day Brest, Belarus), Bavaria, and near present-day Prague. Alongside her five siblings, Hellerstein was raised in Cleveland Heights, close to the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center where both of her parents practiced. She grew up in a Reform Jewish household. More information...
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