Mikhoel_Felsenbaum Mikhoel Felzenbaum () (RussianVasylkiv, Ukraine) is a postmodernist Yiddish novelist, poet and playwright. He grew up in the Bessarabian city of Floreşti. He studied stage directing, theatre and art history in Leningrad, and from 1969 to 1973 worked as a director in the national theater of Bălţi.