Poet, translator Moses Fishbein needs help to conduct surgery abroad and further rehabilitation

Poet, translator, member of the Ukrainian PEN Moses Fishbein has been in the hospital in serious condition for the third week. He needs help to conduct surgery abroad and further rehabilitation. To this end, his colleagues at the Ukrainian PEN initiated the fundraising.

You can transfer funds to help the writer into the Ukrainian PEN dollars account.

Dollars:

Сompany Name: NGO "UKRAINIAN CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL PEN CLUB"

IBAN Code: UA603206490000026006052728973
Name of the bank: JSC CB “PRIVATBANK”, 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
Bank SWIFT Code: PBANUA2X
Company address: UA 04071 Kiyv, Мezigirskaya 21
Aim of transfer: targeted charitable assistance for medical treatment of Moysey Fishbein

EURO:

Сompany Name: NGO "UKRAINIAN CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL PEN CLUB"

IBAN Code: UA303206490000026000052747080
Name of the bank: JSC CB “PRIVATBANK”, 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE
Bank SWIFT Code: PBANUA2X
Company address: UA 04071 Kiyv, Мezigirskaya 21
Aim of transfer: targeted charitable assistance for medical treatment of Moysey Fishbein

Subsequently, dollar and euro bills will also be opened.

Moses Fishbein was born in 1946 in Chernivtsi. He has worked for the Editorial Board of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia and the literary secretary of Mykola Bazhan. In 1979, as a result of refusing to cooperate with the KGB, he was forced to emigrate. He has lived in Germany since 1982. In 2003 he returned to Ukraine.

He has translated into Ukrainian poetry  Heinrich Heine, Georg Trakl, R. M. Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannstha, P. Celan, Hans Carl Artmann, Tudor Arghezi, Chajim Nachman Bialik, Chajim Nachman Bialik, M. Voloshin and other authors.

Thanks to Moses Fishbein, Israel became the first country in the world to receive treatment for children affected by the Chornobyl disaster.

Winner of the Vasyl Stus Prize. In Ukraine he was also awarded the Order of Yaroslav the Wise of the 5th Degree, the Order of Saint Equal-Apostle Prince Vladimir the Great III Degree and the Order "For Intellectual Courage".

He is the author of the books “The Collection Untitled” (1984), “The Wonderful Garden” (1991), “Apocrypha” (1996), “Scattered Shadows” (2001), “Aphorisms” (2003), “ The Early Paradise ”(2006).