Katerina Kuznetsova’s First Poetry Book

The poet Katerina Kuznetsova presented her first Yiddish poetry book Glozperl (Glass Beads) on February 24, 2026, in Berlin. The book was published by the Swedish publishing house Olniansky Tekst.

Born in 1989 in Moscow, Kuznetsova started learning Yiddish at the age of 20. She has been living in the capital of Germany since 2016 where she teaches Yiddish. She founded the informal Yiddishist cultural group Yiddish.Berlin, which includes several local poets.

Kuznetsova began writing Yiddish poetry in 2018. Some of her poems have been translated into Russian, Ukrainian and English. A selection of 10 Kuznetsova’s poems were included in the bilingual volume of contemporary Yiddish poetry with Russian translations Ikh ker zikh um (I Return), published in 2025 in Moscow.

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