Ber Kotlerman

Ber Kotlerman, professor of Yiddish literature and culture at Bar Ilan University in Israel, belongs to the new "unorthodox" generation of Yiddish writers. He spent his childhood in Birobidzhan, the Jewish autonomous region in the Russian Far East, where his family emigrated after the Holocaust. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he was director of the Yiddish Writers and Journalists Association in Israel and the Israeli representative of the New York Yiddish "Forverts". Since 1999, he has contributed to various Yiddish periodicals in the United States, Israel, Poland and France. A year ago, a new Yiddish book by Kotlerman was published in London, this time a suspenseful story about Jewish life in China, "Forsaken" ("Di opgeshtoysene"). Ber Kotlerman received the Hirsh and Dvora Rosenfeld Award for Yiddish Literature for his collection of original Yiddish short stories entitled "The Secret of Polar Bears" ("Der sod fun vayse bern", Tel Aviv, 2017) from which the short story "Rothenburg" is excerpted.

Articles by Ber Kotlerman