Literatureלב ברינסקי

Leṿ Berinsḳi

Lev Berinski is an Israeli poet and translator who writes in Yiddish and Russian.

born 1939Poetry in Yiddish and RussianLiterary translation

Born: 6 April 1939, Căușeni
Occupation: poet, translator, writer, journalist
Education: Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

Leṿ Berinsḳi was born in 1939 in Căușeni

Lev Berinski was born in 1939 in Căușeni, Bessarabia, then part of the Kingdom of Romania, to a Jewish family. His father, Shmil Berinski, was a tailor. During World War II he was taken to Tajikistan and to Zlatoust in the Urals.

After returning to Kishinev, he met local intellectuals. From 1954 he lived in Stalino, later Donetsk, where he trained at a technical school from 1957 to 1959. He then worked as an accordionist and music teacher.

In Donetsk he joined a group of poets, became a close friend of the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, and published in a local newspaper. From 1963 to 1968 he studied at the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute and studied translation at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

From 1970 to 1974 he taught German at a technical institute in Moscow. He has lived in Israel since 1991.