Mikhoel Felsenbaum

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Mikhoel Felzenbaum (born in 1951 in Vasylkiv, Ukraine) is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright.

He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Floreşti. He studied stage directing, theatre and art history in Leningrad, and from 1969 to 1973 worked as a director in the national theater of Bălţi. In the mid 80's, he began to publish his work in the Yiddish journal Sovietish Heymland. In 1988, he founded the Jewish theater of Bălţi, for which he directed a number of plays in Yiddish. He was first chairman of the city's Jewish cultural society. After 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 Goldene Keyt and ToplPunkt (Israel), Di Pen (Oxford), Oyfn Shvel and Yidishe Kultur (New York). His novel, Shabesdike Shvebelekh, is one of the only postmodern works written in Yiddish, and is about to be translated into Hebrew, English, German, Russian and French.

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