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Alma Shin
BornLarisa Elevna Shechtman
1939, february, 8
Kyiv, USSR (now Ukraine)
OccupationYiddish/Russian translator
NationalityIsraeli
Notable worksErev, Rings on the Soul
SpousesLev Berny (born 1936)
ChildrenEva (born 1964)
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Alma Shin (pseudonym of Larisa Berny-Shectman; born 1939) is a Yiddish-Russian translator of fiction.

Biografy

Alma Shin was born into the family of the Jewish writer Eli Schechtman and Jewish actress Sheindl Magazinnik in 1939 in Kyiv. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Zhytomyr Pedagogical Institute, and postgraduate studies at ITEP in Moscow. In 1973, she emigrated to Israel.

Literary work

Alma Shin began her literary career in 1996 by translating the works of Eli Schechtman a prominent Yiddish writer. She translated his entire oeuvre into Russian:

Collection of short stories, "Sonatas" was translated and published at 2000.

Autobiographical novel Rings on the Soul (books 1&2) published at 2001 under name "Кольца на душе".

Epic novel Erev published at 2005.

Novel The Last Sunset published at 2008.

Novel “Plowing the Abyss” - a sequel to Rings on the Soul (books 3&4) published at 2012under name "Вспахать бездну"

In 2011, Alma Shin published a Selected Poems of Paul Celan translated from German.

In 2013, she published an autobiography and a Selected Poems from "Written in Memory” by Naftole-Hertz Kohn from Yiddish.

In 2023, Alma Shin published the Ukrainian version of Eli Schechtman's novel Rings on the Soul under name "Ґойрл, Кольца на душе".

References

  1. now Ivan Franko State University of Zhytomyr
  2. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  3. Fugue of Death. Paul Celan in Translations by Alma Shin (http://www.newswe.com/index.php?go=Pages&in=view&id=2884). Date of access: July 14, 2011. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20101221062310/http://newswe.com/index.php?go=Pages&in=view&id=2884) December 21, 2010.
  4. "Written in Memory” by Naftole-Hertz Kohn in Translations by Alma Shin (http://newswe.com/index.php?go=Pages&in=issue&id=402). Date of access: August 12, 2013. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20141226133011/http://newswe.com/index.php?go=Pages&in=issue&id=402) December 26, 2014.

Gallery

  • Name:Сонаты Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Russian Date: 2000 Name:Сонаты
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Russian
    Date: 2000
  • Name: Эрев Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Russian Date: 2005 ISBN 965-7272-02-3 ISBN 965-7272-02-5 Name: Эрев
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Russian
    Date: 2005
    ISBN 965-7272-02-3
    ISBN 965-7272-02-5
  • Name:Кольца на душе Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Russian Date: 2001 ISBN 965-90212-9-1 Name:Вспахать бездну Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Russian Date: 2012 ISBN 9781311459756 Name:Кольца на душе
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Russian
    Date: 2001
    ISBN 965-90212-9-1
    Name:Вспахать бездну
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Russian
    Date: 2012
    ISBN 9781311459756
  • Name:Последний Закат Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Russian Date: 2008 ISBN 965-90910-0-1 Name:Последний Закат
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Russian
    Date: 2008
    ISBN 965-90910-0-1
  • Name: Ґойрл Кільця на душі Author: Eli Shechtman Translator : Alma Shin Language: Ukrainian Date: 2008 ISBN 978-617629-801-4 Name: Ґойрл Кільця на душі
    Author: Eli Shechtman
    Translator : Alma Shin
    Language: Ukrainian
    Date: 2008
    ISBN 978-617629-801-4


Additional links

(https://web.archive.org/web/20060210235909/http://www.newswe.com/Vr em/vremena.htm) dated February 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

  • Rings on the Soul, Volume 1, Book 1, all the chapters (read by Alma Sheen) on YouTube

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvlxWufuans&list=PLvSpv YrJCrhTws_QP4PywU9_zFuGqOARO)

  • ♪ Rings on the Soul, Volume 1, Book 2, all the chapters (read by Alma Sheen) on YouTube ♪

(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvSpvYrJCrhRjRUHtv KgKKKdth5Dv5Wz_r)

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