Background
He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Floreşti.
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Michael Felsenbaum
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He studied stage directing, theatre and art history in Leningrad and, from 1969 to 1973, worked as a director in the national theater of Bălţi.
Career
In the mid-1980s, he began to publish his work in the Yiddish journal Sovietish Heymland. In 1988, he founded the Jewish theater of Bălţi, for which he directed a number of plays in Yiddish. He was first chairman of the city"s Jewish cultural society.
His plays have been discussed in a conference in Alsace
He has had work published in various Yiddish journals: Di Goldene Keyt and ToplPunkt (Israel), Di Pen (Oxford), Oyfn Shvel and Yidishe Kultur (New York).
His novel, Shabesdike Shvebelekh, is one of the only postmodern works written in Yiddish, and is about to be translated into Hebrew, English, German, Russian and French. lieutenant was discussed at a conference in Oxford.
