Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a

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poet, writer and journalist from

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with background in computer programming.https://www.gazetaeao.ru/idish-obshhechelovecheskij-yazyk/ He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager. Matveyev is also a Russian writer and poet. Matveyev's poems, prose and verse translations of Russian poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines '' Der Nayer Fraynd'', ''Der Bavebter Yid'', ''

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'', '' Di Tsukunft'', '' Yiddishland'', the newspaper

Birobidzhaner Shtern The ''Birobidzhaner Shtern'' (Yiddish: ; russian: Биробиджанер Штерн ''Birobidžaner Štern''; "The Birobidzhan Star") is a newspaper published in both Yiddish and Russian in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia. It was set up ...

, read on the Israeli international radio

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, published in several books, including ''Step By Step'', a 2009 anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry with parallel English translation and ''A Ring'', a 2017 anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry. In 2002, he started working as a staff writer for the Yiddish Forward. In 2004-2005, Matveyev helped to establish and coedited the magazine Der Nayer Fraynd, the only Yiddish literary magazine that existed at that time in Russia founded by Yisroel Nekrasov, a Yiddish poet who lives in Saint Petersburg. Matveyev's articles also appeared in English, Russian and Croatian publications.http://www.zarez.hr/system/issue/pdf/311/315-316.pdf In 2017 Matveyev returned to his home city, Saint Petersburg, where he is currently based.

Bibliography

* Step by Step, Contemporary Yiddish Poetry, 2009, edited by Elissa Bemporad & Margherita Pascucci, * ''A Ring'', Contemporary Yiddish Poetry, 2017, edited by Velvl Chernin & Michael Felzenbaum, * Almanac Birobidzhan (v. 16, 2021), edited by Yelena Sarashevskaya,

External links

Yoel Matveyev's articles in the Yiddish Forward

Yoel Matveyev's poem translated from Yiddish into Russian by Yisroel Nekrasov

References

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