Boris Sandler was born in 1950 in Belts (Bessarabia). In 1975 he graduated from the Music Conservatory of Kishinev. He played violin in the Moldavian Symphony Orchestra.
In 1983 he received an advanced degree in Literature from the Literary Academy of Moscow. Sandler began writing for the Moscow based Yiddish magazine “Sovietish Heymland” and later joined the editorial board of the magazine. In 1989 he created a Yiddish show on Moldavian State Television called, “On the Jewish Street”. B. Sandler is the author of two documentary film scripts, “Don’t give up, Yiddish” (1991) and “Where is my home?” (1992), which dealt with the fate of Bessarabian Jewry. From 1990, until his immigration to Israel in 1992, he was the Yiddish Editor of the bilingual journal “Undzer Kol” (“Our Voice”) in Kishinev. From 1989 to 1992, Boris Sandler was the President of the Yiddish Cultural Organization of Moldavia.
Sandler is the author of five books of fiction in Yiddish: “Stairway to A Miracle” (Moscow, 1986) which was also translated into Russian under the same title, “Regarding 5390” (Jerusalem, 1992), “The Old Well” (Tel Aviv, 1994), “Gates” (Jerusalem, 1997). He was the Editor of the children’s magazine “Kind un Keyt”. His works have been translated into Russian, English,French, German, Hebrew and Rumanian. Sandler was also the recipient of a number of prestigious Israeli literary awards. Since April 1998 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Yiddish newspaper “Forverts” and Director of the weekly Yiddish radio program “The Forverts Hour” on WEVD.
9 thoughts on “Kaminos”
Was Nicholas related to Alexander Saslavsky who married Celeste Izolee Todd?
Anyone have a contact email for Yair Klinger or link to score for Ha-Bayta?
wish to have homeland concert video played on the big screen throughout North America.
can organize here in Santa Barbara California.
contacts for this needed and any ideas or suggestions welcomed.
Nat farber is my great grandpa 😊
Are there any movies or photos of max kletter? His wife’s sister was my stepmother, so I’m interested in seeing them and sharing them with his wife’s daughter.
The article says Sheb recorded his last song just 4 days before he died, but does not tell us the name of it. I be curious what it was. I’d like to hear it.
Would anyone happen to know where I can find a copy of the sheet music for a Gil Aldema Choral (SATB) arrangement for Naomi Shemer’s “Sheleg Al Iri”. (Snow on my Village)?
Joseph Smith
Kol Ram Community Choir, NYC
שלום שמעון!
לא שכחתי אותך. עזבתי את ישראל בפברואר 1998 כדי להביא את בני האוטיסט לקבל את העזרה המקצועית שלא הייתה קיימת אז בישראל. זה סיפור מאוד עצוב וטרגי, אבל אני הייתי היחיד עם ביצים שהביא אותו והייתי הורה יחיד בשבילו במשך חמישה חודשים. הוא היה אז בן 9. כעת הוא בן 36 ומתפקד באופן עצמאי. נתתי לו הזדמנות לעתיד נורמלי. בטח, אבות כולם חרא, אומרים הפמינציות, אבל כולם צריכים לעבוד כמטרות במטווחי רובה!
משה קונג
(Maurice King)
Thank you for this wonderful remembrance of Herman Zalis. My late father, Henry Wahrman, was one of his students. Note the correct spelling of his name for future reference. Thank you again for sharing this.
Tirza Wahrman (Mitlak)