Oleksandr Bejderman

Oleksandr Abramowytsch Bejderman ( Ukrainian Олександр Абрамович Бейдерман ., Scientific transliteration Oleksandr Abramovyč Bejderman ; Russian Александр Абрамович Бейдерман ; English spelling Beyderman * 16th January 1949 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Jewish - Ukrainian writer, lecturer in Hebrew, Russian and English Philology at the Odessa University .

Bejderman writes in Yiddish , Ukrainian and Russian and is considered to be one of the last and most important authors to write in Yiddish in the former settlement areas of the Russian Jews. His entry into the Soviet literary business succeeded with the help of literary functionaries, but he soon broke away at least partially from the narrow guidelines of socialist realism and found in his poetry a still realistic language, whose bitter radiance extends far beyond the simplicity of selected subjects. The Holocaust in World War II is just as much a topic as the use of subjects by Scholem Alejchem and other Jewish writers. His depictions range from subtle social criticism to pseudoblasphemous sarcasm . His generation is probably the last in Ukraine to use Yiddish as a literary language. His Yiddish texts are read more in Israel and the USA than in Ukraine . His novels and dramas in Russian and Ukrainian reach higher editions. The Ukrainian language has played a special role in the author's work, especially in recent years.

Bejderman was a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and works for the Jewish Claims Conference . Today he works as a lecturer in Hebrew as well as Russian and English philology at the Odessa Mechnikov University .

literature

• Aleksandr Abramovič Bejderman: Yiddish poems. (Bilingual edition Yiddish and German) Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-935035-07-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Oleksandr Bejderman in the catalog of the German National Library