Her books include a translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern’s poems, In New York: A Selection, Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky, and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is coeditor. Hellerstein’s translations, poems, and many scholarly articles on Yiddish and Jewish American literature have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her Women Yiddish Poets: An Anthology is forthcoming, and her current project is a book entitled China through Yiddish Eyes: Cultural Translation in the Twentieth Century. A Question of Tradition has also received the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies.