Olexander Beyderman

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

Bejderman writes in Yiddish, Ukrainian and Russian and is considered one of the last and most important at the same time written in Yiddish authors in the former settlements of the Russian Jews. His entry in the Soviet literary scene, he managed with the help of literature functionaries, but he soon freed himself at least partly from the narrow requirements of socialist realism, and found in his poetry to a further realistic language whose austere appeal reaches far beyond the simplicity of selected subjects. The Holocaust in World War II is also subject such as the use of motifs of Sholem Aleichem and other Jewish writers. His depictions range from subtle social criticism to pseudoblasphemischem sarcasm. His generation is probably the last one in the Ukraine, the use of Yiddish as a literary language. Will be read from his Yiddish texts rather than in Israel and the USA in Ukraine. Higher editions reach his novels and dramas in Russian and Ukrainian languages ​​. The Ukrainian language plays in the work of the author, especially in recent years, a special role.

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