MOYSHE
LEMSTER (b. 1946)
He was born in the Moldovan village
of Stolniceni. His father died in 1949,
and he spent his childhood years in the village of Costeşti on the Prut
River. Aside from the years (1963-1968)
in which he studied at the Tiraspol Pedagogical Institute, he lived from 1953
through 1981 with his mother in the town of Edinet in northern Moldova. For a fair amount of time, he worked as a
teacher of physics and mathematics. From
1981 he was in Kishinev. Over the years
1989-1991, he studied in the higher literary course at the Gorky Institute of
Literature. In 1999 while working in the
Moldovan Academy of Sciences, he defended his dissertation and received his
doctoral degree. His thesis was
concerned with the work of Eliezer Shteynbarg.
Over the years 1992-2000, he worked at the Moldovan State University as
a teacher of Yiddish and Yiddish literature.
In 2000 he and his family made aliya to Israel. He began publishing in Yiddish in the journal
Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland)
in 1982. He published the poetry
collection: A yidishe regn, lider (A
Jewish rain, poems) (Tel Aviv, 1996), 110 pp.; Russian translation by Rudol’f
Ol’shevskii, Evreiskii dozhd’ (Kishinev,
1997), 143 pp. In 1999 his scholarly
work on Shteynbarg appeared in print: Evreiskii
basnopisets i mudrets Eliezer Shteinbarg (Eliezer, Shteynbarg, writer of Jewish
tales and sage) (Kishinev), 241 pp. He has
continued publishing in a variety of Yiddish publications. His poems have been translated into Russian,
Romanian, German, and English. Most
recently, he prepared for publication: Amol
breyshes, geklibene lider un poemes, 1982-2007 (Once upon a time in the
beginning, collected poetry, 1982-2007) (Tel Aviv, 2008), 303 pp. He was last living in Bat Yam.
Chaim
Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in
ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet
Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish
Culture, Inc., 2011), pp. 219-20.
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