Boris Sandler
- January 8, 2024
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Boris Sandler Biography
| Name | Boris Sandler |
| Birthday | Jan 6 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Bălți |
| Birth Country | Moldova |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Boris Sandler is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 6, 1950 in Bălți, Moldova. The majority of his work is set in postwar Bessarabia of his youth , his themes range from historical fiction on the Kishenev Pogrom, and novellas on the Holocaust to depictions of immigrants’ Jewish living throughout Israel or New York and even occasional science fiction. Alongside significant influences from traditional Yiddish writers like Sholem Aleichem as well as modernist Yiddish writers like David Bergelson, his work frequently includes elements of Magic Realism. One of the themes that Sandler frequently explores is the trauma of intergenerational generations resulting from the Holocaust and the impact of dictatorships that are totalitarian in the lives writers and artists as well as the state of Yiddish culture and language during the 20th century, and the effects of immigration on families with multiple generations.
Stairway to a Dream (Yiddish: Moscow, Sovietsky Pisatel Publishers 1986)
In 1989 Sandler became the host and lead producer of the first regularly- appearing Yiddish-language television show On the Jewish Street, which aired for several years on Moldovan television. During this period Sandler created two Yiddish-language documentary films, “Where is My Home” and “Don’t Give Up Yiddish!” about Moldovan Jewish life. Sensing that most of the community would soon leave for Israel, he used the documentaries as a way to preserve the memories of Bessarabian Jewry at a time of great upheaval. From 1990 until 1992 Sandler was also the editor of the Yiddish section of the Chișinău-based newspaper Our Voice.
Boris Sandler has received nearly every Yiddish literary prize that was still being awarded in the 1990s and 2000s including the Jacob Fichman Prize (2002), the Dovid Hofshtein Prize awarded by the Yiddish Writer’s Union in Israel (2005) and the J. I. Segal Prize from the Jewish Public Library of Montreal for the best new work of Yiddish literature (2010 and 2014).
Sandler began his studies in music at age five and eventually enrolled in the music conservatory. He became professional violinist for over more than a decade, with seven years in the Moldovan State Orchestra. He took a two-year break from his professional career but to pursue a degree in literature as a member of an ensemble of Yiddish writers and others from minority languages who went to at the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow to pursue advanced studies. The institute was founded in 1981. Sandler was part of the first group of Yiddish poets and writers to pursue a study of Yiddish writing at the level of a graduate in the USSR following the Stalin-era extermination of Yiddish writers and educational institutions in the latter part of 1940. Sandler’s debut as a literary writer in the same year with the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored Yiddish literary magazine Sovetish Heymland, where he would later be a part of the editorial board. The first collection of his short stories, Stairway to a Miracle was released in 1986.
Boris Sandler Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Boris Sandler is one of the richest Author from Moldova. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Boris Sandler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Boris Sandler was born in 1950 in Balti, Bessarabia (Yiddish: Beltz and today, Moldova) and was raised with Holocaust survivors, and children of Holocaust survivors in a YIDDISH-speaking community that would be the source of numerous characters and scenes in his later novels. From his family and friends predominantly former inhabitants of smaller villages and towns who were forced to move to cities following the Holocaust He was taught the folklore and traditions of the indigenous Bessarabia people. Jewish Bessarabia and its extensive Yiddish dialect.
Boris Sandler (Yiddish: bAarys Sandlr; born on the 6th of January, 1950, in Beltz) is an Yiddish-speaking writer as well as a journalist, playwright, and lyricist. He was also the editor who was previously of the Yiddish version in the Forward.
Stairway to a Miracle (Russian translation: Moscow, Sovietsky Pisatel Publishers, 1988)
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Die grunen Apfel des Paradieses (German Translation of Gates: Berlin, Ed. Dodo Publishing, 2003)
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When the Golem Closed His Eyes (Yiddish: Tel Aviv, H. Leivick Publishing, 2004)