Alexandr Brodskiy Moldovan-Israeli journalist, essayist, translator, poet. Country: Israel

Biography of Alexander Brodsky

Alexander Brodsky is a Moldavian-Israeli journalist, essayist, translator, and poet. He was born in evacuation in Uzbekistan in 1942, to a family of a lawyer and a conservatory teacher. In 1944, after the liberation of the city, the family returned to Kishinev. Brodsky completed his secondary education at the 3rd middle school and attended a literary circle at the newspaper "Molodezh Moldavii," led by poet Rudolf Ol'shevsky. During this time, notable writers such as Lev Berinsky, Alexander Ozhiganov, Boris Viktorov, and others also attended the literary circle.

In 1961-1964, Brodsky served in the army. In 1970, he graduated from the faculty of journalism at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov with a diploma in literary editing. He worked in the editorial office of the Kishinev literary journal "Nistru" and headed the Russian section of the bilingual Jewish newspaper "Nash Golos."

Brodsky became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR in 1978. From 1981 to 1983, he studied in the first group of the Jewish language and literature course at the Higher Literary Courses of the Soviet Union, together with Lev Berinsky, Boris Sandler, Velvl Chernin, and Moishe Pens.

Brodsky was one of the most prolific translators of classical and contemporary Moldavian poetry and prose into Russian. He translated works by George Asaki, Mihai Eminescu, Vasile Alexandri, Spiridon Vangheli, and dozens of other Moldavian writers. Starting from the 1980s, he also translated from Yiddish, including the posthumously published novel "That Same Year" by Joseph Rabin and the collection "Steps to a Miracle" by Boris Sandler. Later, in Israel, he translated the book of memories "Dangers, Trials, Miracles" by Romania's chief rabbi Moses Rosen and a collection of commentaries by Rabbi Rosen on the Torah (the latter translated jointly with Lev Berinsky). He also translated from other languages.

Since December 1992, Brodsky has been living in Israel, residing in Bat Yam. Until 2002, he was the editor of the literary supplement "Jewish Kamerton" to the newspaper "Novosti Nedeli." He mainly publishes literary essays in various periodicals in the country under the pseudonym Mickey Wolf. His essays under the name Mickey Wolf were collected in the books "Milky Way and Other Rooftop Works" (2003) and "The Unfreedom of the Sky" (2008, longlisted for the Bunin Prize in 2008).