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Mikhoel Felsenbaum
Mikhoel Felzenbaum ( yi, מיכאל פֿעלזענבאַום, russian: Михо́эл Фельзенба́ум; born 1951 in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, USSR) is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright. He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Florești, Moldova, Florești. He studied stage directing, theatre and art history in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad and, from 1969 to 1973, worked as a director in the national theater of Bălți. 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 Alsace After 1990s post-Soviet aliyah, immigrating to Israel in 1991, Felsenbaum published several volumes of poetry and prose in Yiddish, and was co-founder of the almanac, ''Naye Vegn''. He has had work published in various Yiddish journals: ''Di G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasylkiv
Vasylkiv (, uk, Васильків, lit=, translit=Vasylʹkiv, yi, וואַסלקעוו, Vasilikev) is a city located on the Stuhna River in Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vasylkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. A settlement with an over 1000 years history, Vasylkiv was incorporated as a city in 1796. The city has hosted the Vasylkiv Air Base since the Cold War. It is currently an industrial centre, producing electrical appliances and leather goods. Population: History Vasylkiv was founded in 988 CE, and fortified in the 11th century. According to the Primary Chronicle, it was the place where Vladimir the Great's numerous wives lived. After the Christianization of Kyiv, Vladimir built there a fortress and named it ''Vasilev'', after his patron saint, Saint Basil (Vasily). In the early 11th century, it was the birthplace of Saint Theodosius of Kiev. The Anthony and Theodosius Pechersky Church, built in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |