Yoel Matveyev

Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a Yiddish poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR. He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager.^[1] Matveyev is also a Russian writer and poet.^[2]

Matveyev's poems, prose and verse translations of Russian poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines , Der Bavebter Yid, Yugntruf, Di Tsukunft, , the newspaper Birobidzhaner Shtern, read on the Israeli international radio Kol Israel, 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.^[1][3] In 2004-2005, Matveyev helped to establish and coedited the magazine , the only Yiddish literary magazine that existed at that time in Russia^[4] founded by , a Yiddish poet who lives in Saint Petersburg.^[5] Matveyev's articles also appeared in English, Russian and Croatian publications.^[6][7][8][9]In 2017 Matveyev returned to his home city, Saint Petersburg, where he is currently based.^[10]

Bibliography[]

• Step by Step, Contemporary Yiddish Poetry, 2009, edited by Elissa Bemporad & Margherita Pascucci, ISBN 9788874622573
• A Ring, Contemporary Yiddish Poetry, 2017, edited by & , ISBN 9789659260539
• Almanac Birobidzhan (v. 16, 2021), edited by Yelena Sarashevskaya, ISBN 9785604463437

External links[]

• [1] Yoel Matveyev's articles in the Yiddish Forward
• [2] Yoel Matveyev's poem translated from Yiddish into Russian by

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