Dr. Mordechay Yushkovsky was born in Ukraine. As an autodidact, he studied Yiddish language and culture, as well as Hebrew. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the Moscow University of Railway Engineering. In the early 1980s, he began writing prose in Yiddish, publishing his first stories in the journal “סאָוועטיש היימלאַנד” (Sovetish Heymland) – the only Yiddish publication in the Soviet Union during the 1960s-90s. He worked on the editorial staff of this journal for approximately two years. In 1989, he immigrated to Israel. In 1997, he received his doctorate from the Department of Jewish Literature at Bar-Ilan University. Mordechay Yushkovsky dedicated his life to preserving and promoting the Yiddish language and its cultural values. He served as Secretary-General of the World Council for Yiddish Culture, spent 14 years as Chief Inspector for Yiddish at the Ministry of Education, and served for 9 years as Academic Director of the International Yiddish Center at the World Jewish Congress in Vilnius. He established an extensive network of courses in Yiddish culture (literature, theater, cinema, folklore, humor) throughout Israel, and lectured on these subjects at numerous forums worldwide. Thousands of people studied and trained in his course network. Over 30 years, Mordechay Yushkovsky led literary-folkloric tours to Eastern Europe, in which more than 4,000 Israelis participated. He wrote approximately 80 articles on literature, culture, and society. In recent years, he resumed writing prose.