Moishe Lemster ^People

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 phy- sics and mathematics. From 1981 hewas in Chisināu. Over the years 1989-1991, hestu- died in thehigher literary course at theGorky Institute of Literature. In 1999 while wor- king 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 years1992-2000, he worked at the Moldovan State University as ateacher 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 home- land) in 1982. He published the poetry collection: Ayidishe regn, lider (A Jewish rani, poems) (Tel Aviv, 1996), 110 pp., Russian translation by Rudolf Ol'shevsky, Evreiski dozhd' (Chisināu, 1997), 143 pp. In 1999 his scholarly work on Shteynbarg appeared in print: Evreiskii basnopisets i mudrets Eliezer Shteynbarg (Eliezer, Shteynbarg, writer of Jewish tales and sage) (Chisinäu), 241 pp. He has continued publishingin 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.