Ludovic Bruckstein

Ludovic Bruckstein (27 July 1920 – 4 August 1988) was a Romanian writer.

Biography He was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), and grew up in Sighet, Maramureș, in the northern region of Transylvania.

He was the son of Mordechai Bruckstein, the owner of a small factory making walking canes, and exporting medicinal plants. His great-grandfather, Chaim-Josef Bruckstein, a Hassidic rabbi was among the first chassidim.

In Spring 1944, after a few months in the Sighet ghetto, the Bruckstein family, father, mother and four children, were deported to Auschwitz, as were all of the town's Jews. Only Bruckstein and his younger brother, Israel, survived.

Works Maybe even happiness (Poate chiar fericire), translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth, London : Istros Books, 2026, The fate of Yaakov Maggid, translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth, London : Istros Books, 2023, With an unopened umbrella in the pouring rain, short stories, translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth, London : Istros Books, 2020, The trap : two novellas (Scorbura), translated from the Romanian by Alistair Ian Blyth, London : Istros Books, 2019,