Shney, Y. L.
1990-
He was born in Boston, the United States. He was a bilingual (Yiddish and English) poet, a prose writer in English, a translator from German, Yiddish, and Spanish language literature into English, as well as a musician. He studied linguistics at New York University.
He published a collection of poems and two volumes of prose in English.
In 2021 he brought out an English translation of an essay by Dvore Fogel in the online journal
In Geveb (On the Web).
He edited her poetry collection Gloz-Blumen (Glass Flowers) in Yiddish with a Portuguese translation (São Paulo, 2024) and with a Spanish translation (Buenos Aires, 2024).
He debuted in print with his own poems in Yiddish in the collection
Nayste Yidishe Dikhtung (Latest Yiddish Poetry) (Berlin, 2022).
He has also published in the journal
Yidishland (Yiddishland).
He lives in Berlin (2025).