Yoel Matveyev
Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a Yiddish, English and Russian poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR with background in computer programming. He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager. Matveyev's poems, prose and verse translations of Russian, English, Irish, Evenki and Esperanto poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines Der Nayer Fraynd, Der Bavebter Yid, Yugntruf, Di Tsukunft, Yiddishland, 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.
Yoel Matveyev
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Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a Yiddish, English and Russian poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR with background in computer programming. He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager. Matveyev's poems, prose and verse translations of Russian, English, Irish, Evenki and Esperanto poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines Der Nayer Fraynd, Der Bavebter Yid, Yugntruf, Di Tsukunft, Yiddishland, 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.
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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. In 2017, Matveyev returned to his home city, Saint Petersburg, where he is currently based. His publications in Russia include Russian prose and poetry, as well as English poems.
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- 1.Визитная карточка поэта: Йоэль Матвеев (Business card of the poet: Yoel Matveev).
- 2.Yury Mamin, official site - "THE JOYS OF LOVING JOYCE".
- 3.Вместе с «Форвертсом» 18 лет (Together with Vorverts for 18 years).
- 4.יואל מאַטוועיעוו | פֿאָרווערטס.
- 5.Идиш на постсоветском пространстве.
- 6.LIMMUD FSU Recharge Presenters 2015 | Yoel Matveyev, Yiddish poet, writer, researcher and cultural activist | LIMMUD FSU Recharge.
- 7.Matveyev, Yoel. Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Computational Kabbalah of Rabbi Pinchas Elijah Hurwitz. History and Philosophy of Logic. 32. 85–101. 2011. 10.1080/01445340.2010.506106.
- 8.Yoel Matveyev – The Forward.
- 9.Lutanje između progresa i fašizma (Wandering between progress and fascism). Zarez.
- 10.Atanora.
- 11.Some of Yoel Matveyev's Russian poems.
- 12.Some of Yoel Matveyev's English poems.
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- 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,
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