Friday 12 July 2019

MIKHAIL SHAMBADAL

MIKHAIL SHAMBADAL (1881-1964)

            He was a translator of classical and Soviet Yiddish literature into Russian. His first publications appeared in the 1930s. He was particularly successful translating Sholem-Aleichem. He died in Moscow.

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), p. 372.

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