Alma Shin (pseudonym of Larisa Berny-Shectman; born 1939) is a Yiddish-Russian translator of fiction.

Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Zhytomyr Pedagogical Institute,[1] and postgraduate studies at ITEP[2] in Moscow.

Alma Shin began her literary career in 1996 by translating the works of Eli Schechtman a prominent Yiddish writer.

In 2013, she published an autobiography and a Selected Poems from "Written in Memory” by Naftole-Hertz Kohn from Yiddish.

[4] In 2023, Alma Shin published the Ukrainian version of Eli Schechtman's novel Rings on the Soul under name "Ґойрл, Кольца на душе".