Rudolf Olshevsky ^People

He was born in the family of Alexander and Zinovia Goldfeld. His family left for a time to work in Belarus, Ukraine. After graduating the Odessa High School in 1956, Rudolf Olshevsky settled in Chisinau.For several decades he worked in the editorial office of Tineretul Moldoveinewspaper and of Codrii literary magazine. From 1963, he started collaborating with Moldova Film Studio, where he worked as a screenwriter. During 1960-1980, he led the Orbita Literary Association, during which literary activities of Eugeniu Horvat, Katea Kapovich, Boris Victorov, Boris Roitblat, etc. were organized.More than twenty books of poetry, journalism, fiction, translations of the wri- ter's poetry, including 5 science fiction novels, have been published in Chisinau.He wrote the libretto for the opera The Dragon by the Moldavian composer Eduard Lazarev, and composed two works for the The Jerusalem Branch literary a-l manac. He translated the opera of Pavel Botu, Petru Zadnipru, Victor Teleuca. He alsotranslated the works of Spiridon Vangheli, Gheorghe Voda, Constantin Condrea, An- drei Lupan, Anatolie Gugel, Dumitru Matcovschi. The Yiddish translations included the works of Moishe Lemster, Ihil Shraibman, Boris Sandler, and in 2000, he published a book of translations of five Jewish poets from Bessarabia - Eliezer Steinberg, ZeylikBardichever, Yankev Sternberg, Motl Saktsier and Herzl Rivkin.