Velvl Chernin

Velvl Chernin is a poet and literary researcher. Author of 10 collections of poetry in Yiddish and numerous articles on the history of Jewish literature. Was born in Moscow in 1958. In 1990 he made aliyah. Received a doctorate at Bar-Ilan. He taught Jewish literature at the universities of Israel, Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Co-editor of the literary journal "Yiddishland" and the book series "Bibliotek fun der haynttsaytiker yidisher literatur" ("Library of Contemporary Yiddish Literature").