Boris Dorfman

Boris Dorfman
Michael Dorfman May 2010 by Maria Dorfman
Born	(1923-05-23)23 May 1923 Cahul, Bessarabia, Romania
Citizenship	Ukraine

Boris (Boruch) Mendelevich Dorfman Russian: Борис (Борух) Менделевич Дорфман Yiddish: באָריס (ברוך) דאָרפמאַן‎; born 23 May 1923, in Cahul, Bessarabia)^[1] was a Jewish public figure, writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist.

He authored about 1000 articles on Jewish issues in Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and German for publications including Birobidzhaner Shtern and Советиш Геймланд.^[2] One of the founders of Shofar, the first Jewish newspaper in the former USSR.^[2]

He is the father of American publicist Michael Dorfman.

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• "Boris Dorfman - A Mentsh - Documentary film - Official trailer" (in Yiddish).
• Gabriela von Seltmann, Uwe von Seltmann (Writers and Directors) (May 24, 2014). Boris Dorfman - A Mentsh (in Yiddish).

Boris Dorfman Biography

Selected articles[]

• Dorfman, Boris. "Элиезер Штеинбарг, Яков Штеренберг и Моше Альтман — писатели, творцы духовного наследия на идиш в ХХ в" [Eliezer Shteinbarg, Jacob Sternberg and Moshe Altman - writers, creators of Yiddish spiritual heritage in the twentieth century] (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 2002-12-29. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
• Dorfman, Boris. "ИЦИК МАНГЕР И ��АУЛЬ ЦЕЛАН — ДВА ВЕЛИКИХ ПОЭТА ХХ СТОЛЕТИЯ" [Itzik Manger and Paul Celan - Two great poets of the twentieth century] (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 2008-02-09.
• Dorfman, Boris (28 August 2003). "Моисей Гершензон /1903– 1943/. ФЕНОМЕН ЕВРЕЙСКОГО КУЛЬТУРНОГО ВОЗРОЖДЕНИЯ НА УКРАИНЕ 20– 30-х годов" [Moses Gershenzon / 1903 - 1943 / Phenomenon of Jewish Cultural Renaissance in 1920s-30s Ukraine]. Proceedings of Sixth Conference (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2008.
• "Земляки". Еврейское местечко. Кишинев. December 2008.^{[dead link]}