Rinkevitsh, Mindy
1929-
A translator of Yiddish poetry (as well as Polish and Russian) into English and a bilingual (Yiddish-English) poet, she was born in New York. She pursued Slavic studies at Columbia University.
From her youth, she has published in periodicals poetry in English as well as in Yiddish. She has brought out three poetry collections in English. She has translated into English poems by Rokhl Fishman, Gavriel-Shiye Preyl, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Moyshe Sheyngart, and Reyzl Zhikhlinski.
She contributed to the bilingual (Yiddish-English) anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry,
Trot bay Trot (Step by Step) (Macerata: Verbarium/Quodlibet, 2009), 233 pp.; and
the anthology of Yiddish female poets in Polish translation
Mayn Vilde Tsig (My Wild Goat) (Kraków, 2023).
She lives in New York (2025).