Mikhoel Felzenbaum (, ; born 1951 in

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novelist, poet and playwright. He grew up in the

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. He studied stage directing, theatre and art history in

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. In the mid-1980s, he began to publish his work in the Yiddish journal '' Sovetish Heymland''. In 1988, he founded the Jewish theater of Bălți, for which he directed a number of plays in Yiddish. He was first chairman of the city's Jewish cultural society. His plays have been discussed in a conference in

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After immigrating to

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in 1991, Felsenbaum published several volumes of poetry and prose in Yiddish, and was co-founder of the

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, '' Naye Vegn''. He has had work published in various Yiddish journals: '' Di Goldene Keyt'' and '' ToplPunkt'' (Israel), '' Di Pen'' (Oxford), '' Oyfn Shvel'' and '' Yidishe Kultur'' (New York). His novel, ''Shabesdike Shvebelekh'', is one of the only

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works written in Yiddish, and is about to be translated into

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, English, German, Russian and French. It was discussed at a conference in Oxford " ''Shabesdike shvebelekh'' : a postmodern novel by Mikhoel Felsenbaum "/ Astrid Starck-Adler in Sherman, J. ''Yiddish after the Holocaust.'' Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Oxford: Boulevard Books, 2004. Mikhoel Felzenbaum has programmes on the weekly Yiddish language series broadcast on the

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radio station based in Israel. Mikhoel Felzenbaum is the father of the singer Vira Lozinsky.

Awards

A lifetime achievement award from the National Authority for Yiddish Culture fo
2024

Bibliography

* עס קומט דער טאָג (Es kumt der tog: lider; Day arrives: Poems). Jerusalem; Tel-Aviv: Šmuel un Riwke Hurwitz Literatur-Fond, 1992. * אַ ליבע-רעגן (A libe regn: lider; Rain of love: Poems). Tel Aviv: I. L. Peretz Farlag, 1995. * דער נאַכט-מלאך (Der nakht-malekh; Angel of the night). Short stories and plays. Tel Aviv: I. L. Peretz Farlag, 1997. * און איצט איך בין דײַן ניגון (Un itst ikh bin dayn nign; And now I am your melody). Poems. Bilingual edition in Yiddish and in Hebrew translation. Tel Aviv: H. Leyvik Farlag, 1998. * ''Jiddische Texte: Solothurner Literaturtage, 10-12 Mai 2002''. Conversation among Michael Felsenbaum, Lev Berinsky, and Gennady Estraikh. Edited and with an introduction ("Einführung zur Jiddischen Literatur") by Astrid Starck. Solothurn: Solothurner Literaturtage, 2002. In Yiddish and German. . * שבתדיקע שװעבעלעך (Shabesdike shṿebelekh: roman; Sabbath matches: Novel). Tel Aviv: H. Leyvik Farlag, 2004. * אין דרעזדען בײַ דער לאַבע (In Drezden, bay der Labe =Dresden an der Labe; In Dresden on the Elbe). Poems. Bilingual edition in Yiddish and in German translation. Tel Aviv: Menora Verlag, 2006. * Субботние спички (роман, перевёл с идиша Вэлвл Чернин), РИЦ Медиа Формат: Moscow, 2006. * בענקשאַפֿט (Benkshaft; Longing). Poems. Tel Aviv: Menora Verlag, 2007.

References

External links

(Astrid Starck-Adler), Universite de Haute Alsace, May 2003

Рецензия на русский перевод книги «Субботние спички»

Рецензия на роман «Субботние спички» (иврит)

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