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Boris Dorfman

Boris Dorfman
Born(1923-05-23)23 May 1923
Died23 March 2022(2022-03-23) (aged 98)
Lviv, Ukraine
Resting placeYaniv Cemetery, Lviv
CitizenshipUkraine
OccupationWriter

Boris (Boruch) Mendelevich Dorfman (Ukrainian: Борис (Борух) Менделевич Дорфман, Yiddish: באָריס (ברוך) דאָרפמאַן; 23 May 1923 – 23 March 2022) was a Ukrainian Jewish public figure, writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist.

He authored about 1000 articles on Jewish issues in Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and German for publications including Birobidzhaner Shtern and Советиш Геймланд.[1] He was one of the founders of Shofar, the first Jewish newspaper in the former USSR.[1]

Dorfman was born in Cahul, Bessarabia on 23 May 1923.[2] He died on 23 March 2022 in Lviv, at age 98, where he resided, and was buried at the local Yaniv cemetery.[3] He was the father of Michael Dorfman, a human rights activist dedicated to reviving Yiddish culture among Russian and Ukrainian Jews.

Selected articles

References

  1. ^ a b "Борису Михайловичу Дорфману — 80 лет" [Boris Dorfman - 80 years]. Народ мой [My people] (in Russian). 317 (1). 15 January 2004. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007.
  2. ^ Orlikova, Ella (December 2002). "Boris Dorfman". Centropa.
  3. ^ "Помер єврейський публіцист та львівський громадський діяч Борис Дорфман". tvoemisto (in Ukrainian). 23 March 2022.