Lev Berinksy

Lev Berinsky was a Russian poet who switched to Yiddish—in the tradition of Shimon Frug, a 19th-century Russian Yiddish poet. Berinsky’s first volume of Yiddish poetry, Der zuniker veltboy (1988; “The Sunny World-Structure”), was published in Moscow; after emigrating to Israel, Berinsky published Fishfang in…