Mark Zilberquit: Honorary Academician Celebrates His Anniversary
Mark Zilberquit: Honorary Academician Celebrates His Anniversary
On May 30, 2023, a solemn ceremony was held at the Russian Academy of Arts, where the founder of our site, Dr. Mark Zilberquit, was awarded the title of Honorary Academician. Among other things, he is the creator and head of several philanthropic foundations, a public figure, author of several books and numerous publications on musical art. The president of the Academy, the well-known artist, sculptor and architect Zurab Tsereteli handed Dr. Zilberquit the Academician’s personal medal and diploma.
On June 6, Mark Zilberquit spoke at the inauguration of the Sholom Aleichem monument, erected on his initiative at the campus of Tel Aviv University, as well as at the presentation of our website to the faculty members and students. On June 9, he celebrated his 80th birthday. The team of our site wishes him good health and further creative success!
The publishing house Pardes in Haifa published a new Hebrew translation of Sholom Ash’s novel The Man from Nazareth. This book first appeared in its Yiddish original in 1939 and in Hebrew in 1953, translated by David Stav.
A new double volume (# 17-18) of the bilingual Russian and Yiddish almanac Birobidzhan was published in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Russia. This volume includes, among other materials, a brief anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry in the original and in Russian verse translation. It includes works of 17 Yiddish poets from Russia, Israel, USA, France, Belarus, Poland and Great Britain with bio-bibliographic information about them. The almanac is also 
May 23, 2023. The American publishing house White Goat Press, which specializes in translations from Yiddish, has published a bilingual volume of selected poems by the famous Yiddish poet Joseph Kerler (1918–2000) in both the original and in Maia Evrona’s English translation. Evrona is an English-language poet known for her translations of Yiddish poetry, including works of Abraham Sutzkever, Anna Margolin, Celia Dropkin and Malka Li published in literary magazines. Her translations in the new collection are accompanied by original poems by Joseph Kerler. The new book’s preface was written by the poet’s son, Prof. Dov-Ber Kerler, a philologist who also writes poetry in Yiddish under the pseudonym Boris Karloff.
We are happy to announce that on June 6, 2023, a new monument dedicated to the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem will be inaugurated at Tel Aviv University near the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities. The inauguration event will take place at 3:00-3:45 PM.