Moysey Fishbein

Moysey (Moses) Abramovych Fishbein (; 1 December 1946 – 26 May 2020) was an influential Ukrainian poet and translator of Jewish origin.

After the collapse of the USSR, the poet returned to Ukraine in 2003. In March 2008, the poet received a special award from Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for "zeal for God’s Glory and his great contribution in informing the public of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi’s and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church clergy’s sacrificial efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust."

The author was a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine and Ukrainian center of International PEN Club. He was survived by his wife Olena. from his first marriage to Ludmila.

Works "Ranniy Ray" ("Early Paradise") – collected works "Zbirka Bez Nazvy" ("An Untitled Compilation") Дивний сад» / "Garden of Miracles", Vaselka, Kyiv, 1991 - poems for children

«Апокриф» / "Apocrypha", Dnipro, Kyiv, 1996 - poems, translations, poetry «Розпорошени тини» / "Scattered Shadows", Calabria, Lviv, 2001 – poems «Аферизми» / "Stains", Pact, Kyiv, 2003

«Ранний рай» / "Paradise at dawn", Pact, Kyiv, 2006 - selected works «Райнер Мария Рильке. Сто поезий у прекладі Мойсея Фишбейна» ("Rainer Maria Rilke. One hundred poems translated by Moisei Fishbein"), Libid, Kyiv, 2012

«Пророк» / "Prophet", Labid, Kyiv, 2017 – poems, translations

One of the many books of poems and poetical translations of Fishbein was published in the "Suchasnist" publishing house in New York City in 1984.

Several of Fishbein's poems were translated into English by Roman Turovsky.