Rozie, Gilles
March 10, 1963-
A Yiddish-French writer (he wrote prose in French and poetry in Yiddish), a literary researcher, and a translator from Yiddish and Hebrew literature into French, he was born in La Tranche, near Grenoble, France. He studied at the School of Business and Economics in Paris. In 1997, he received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in the field of Yiddish literature.
He has published a monograph on Moyshe Broderzon in French (1999),
Moyshe Broderzon, un écrivain yiddish d’avant-garde (Moyshe Broderzon, a Yiddish writer of the avant-garde) (Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 1999), 280 pp.; and
in Polish, Mojżesz Broderson, od Jung Idysz do Araratu (Moyshe Broderzon, from Yung yidish to Ararat) (Lodz, 2008), 127 pp.
He has published in French seven novels (one of them was translated into a dozen languages, Hebrew among them).
He has translated into French the works of Avrom Sutzkever, Tsilye Drapkin, and Esther Kreitman, as well as the memoirs of Khil Taykhman.
In the 1990s, he began publishing his own original poems in Yiddish. He published them in
Di pen (The pen),
Yerusholaimer almanakh (Jerusalem anthology), and
Toplpunkt (Colon).
Over the years 1994-2014, he directed the Medem Library in Paris.
He edited, 2008-2010,
the Parisian poetry anthology, Gilgulim, naye shafunden (Metamorphoses, new creations) in Paris.
He contributed to
the bilingual (original-German translation) anthology, Die Poesie Europas (European poetry) (Graz, 2004);
A ring, di antologye fun der yidisher poezye inem nokhn-khurbn-dor (A circle, anthology of Yiddish poetry in the post-Holocaust generation) (Tel Aviv, 2017), 169 pp.; and
the anthology of contemporary Yiddish poetry in Ukrainian translation, Tsvishn tsebrokhene matseyves (Among destroyed gravestones) (Kyiv, 2024).
He lives in Paris.