Yoel Matveyev
Yoel Matveyev, born in 1976, is a New York-based Yiddish poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR. He taught himself Yiddish at high school age and started writing Yiddish poetry as a teenager. Matveyev's poems and verse translations of Russian poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines Der Nayer Fraynd, Der Bavebter Yid, Yugntruf and Di Tsukunft, read on the Israeli international radio Kol Israel and included in Step By Step, a 2009 anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry with parallel English translation.
In 2002, he started working as a staff writer for the Yiddish Forward. In 2004-2005, Matveyev helped to establish and coedited the magazine Der Nayer Fraynd, the only Yiddish publication in Russia founded by Yisroel Nekrasov, a Yiddish poet who lives in Saint Petersburg. Matveyev's articles also appeared in English, Russian and Croatian publications.
