Mikhoel Felsenbaum Awarded for Lifetime Achievement
Mikhoel Felsenbaum, a prominent Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright, has received a lifetime achievement award for 2024 in the field of literature from the Israeli National Authority for Yiddish Culture. Dr. Shoshana Dominski, who compiled a Yiddish-Hebrew online dictionary, was awarded a certificate of appreciation.
Born in 1951 in Soviet Ukraine, Felsenbaum studied stage directing, theater and art history in Leningrad and worked as a stage director. In the 1980s, he began to publish his Yiddish works in the magazine Sovetish Heymland. After immigrating to Israel in 1991, he published several volumes of poetry and prose in Yiddish.