Yoel Matveyev (יואל מאַטוועיעוו), born in 1976, is a Yiddish, English and Russian poet, writer and journalist from Leningrad, USSR with background in computer programming.
[2] Matveyev's poems, prose and verse translations of Russian, English, Irish, Evenki and Esperanto poetry into Yiddish were published in the literary magazines Der Nayer Fraynd, Der Bavebter Yid, Yugntruf, Di Tsukunft, Yiddishland, the newspaper Birobidzhaner Shtern, read on the Israeli international radio Kol Israel, published in several books, including Step By Step, a 2009 anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry with parallel English translation and A Ring, a 2017 anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry.
[2][3] In 2004–2005, Matveyev helped to establish and coedited the magazine Der Nayer Fraynd, the only Yiddish literary magazine that existed at that time in Russia[4] founded by Yisroel Nekrasov, a Yiddish poet who lives in Saint Petersburg.
[5] Matveyev's articles also appeared in English, Russian and Croatian publications.
[1] His publications in Russia include Russian [10] prose and poetry,[11] as well as English poems.