Boris Saidman

Boris Saidman was born in 1963 in Chișinău

Boris Saidman was born on May 1, 1963, in Chișinău in the Soviet Union, today in Moldova. His mother was a teacher and his father was a photographer. His family immigrated to Israel when he was a child, and he later wrote in his books about the difficulties of settling in.

He attended Ironi Dalet High School in Tel Aviv. After his army service he studied visual communication at Bezalel.

He worked in advertising as a copywriter, art director and graphic designer, at agencies including Shalmor Avnon Amichay, Tamir Cohen and Adler Chomski. He taught at Bezalel, WIZO Haifa, Emek Yezreel College and Western Galilee College, and lectured on the history of visual communication at the Kibbutzim Seminar. He also taught art history and interdisciplinary art at Kfar Silver high school.

Alongside teaching, he writes and translates. In 2010 he published a Hebrew translation of Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. He taught at Tichonet in 2016 and 2017, later at Ironi Dalet, and from 2023 at Tichon Hadash. He is a father of 2.