St. Petersburg Winter School of Translation 2025

St. Petersburg State University’s Winter School of Translation, an annual international educational program of online studies held on January 24-25, 2025, included a 3-hour long Yiddish section.

Two lectures, by the poet Yoel Matveyev and the philologist Olga Matvienko, were dedicated to artistic and linguistic aspects of poetry translation from Yiddish. One of the major subjects discussed was a volume of contemporary Yiddish poetry with parallel Russian translations currently prepared for publication under the auspices of the Moscow-based publisher Boris Zaitschick.

The linguist Lyubov Lavrova described her practical experience as a Yiddish author working for the newspaper Birobidzhaner Shtern and as a contributor to the Yiddish section of the almanac Birobidzhan. Her work involves translating various historical and cultural materials from several languages into Yiddish.