Hannah Pressman

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The maternal great-grandparents of Hannah Pressman, Ph.D., came from Rhodes and Turkey.

 

A scholar of Jewish languages and literatures, Dr. Pressman is the Director of Education and Engagement at the Jewish Language Project--Hebrew Union College and affiliate faculty at the University of Washington. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the American Ladino League (ALL), a non-profit organization supporting students and teachers of Ladino. Dr. Pressman's Sephardic memoir essays have appeared in publications such as Tablet, The Forward, Hadassah Magazine, and the edited volume Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States (2021). She has been a keynote speaker for Seattle Ladino Day and the Memorial Symposium on Rhodes; a mentor for the Ladino Collaboratory at Binghampton University; a presenter at the ucLADINO conference; and a fellow of the PJ Library Sephardic Stories Initiative.

 

Currently she facilitates Seattles's Ladino study club, Los Muevos Ladineros. She lives in Seattle with her husband and three children. 

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