Yudl Yoffe or Yudl Yofe (, , 1882âÂÂ1941/1942) a was Yiddish writer, translator and sculptor.
Yoffe was born in 1882 in Borzna, Chernigov Governorate. Left an orphan early, he was brought up by his sister in Nizhyn, worked as an apprentice for a tailor, joined the revolutionary movement and, as an agitator, traveled around the Jewish miasteczkoes of Ukraine and Bessarabia, was arrested. Until 1926 he was a tailor. He began his literary work in the magazine ëLebn un Wisnschaftû ( â Life and Science) under the pseudonym ëFolkskindû ( â Child of the Folk). In 1903 he published an essay in an illegal publishing house in ChiÃÂinÃÂu. After the 1905 revolution in Russia, he became close to the anarchists. He began his literary career in 1915 with the publication of the story ëDos Eidemû (Son-in-law) in the magazine ëDie idische Weltû (The Yiddish World) (1915). At one time he was engaged in sculpture (self-taught), took part in the Kyiv exhibition of Jewish artists in 1920. He was one of the founders of the Jewish section of the . In 1921 he moved to Moscow. Collaborated in Jewish newspapers, magazines. The following books were published: ëIn Kessl grubû (In the Boiler-Pit; 1929), ëA direû (Flat; 1929), ëIn groissn NEP Hoifû (In the Large NEP Homestead; 1929), ëIn Kamfû (In the Fight; 1932), ëOnwuksû (Tumor; 1932), ëFun trep, zu trepû (From the Steps to the Steps; 1933), dedicated to the civil war in Ukraine, the years of the New Economic Policy, and socialist construction. Yoffe is a realist writer leaning towards portraiture and lyrical sketching. Workers, worker correspondents, student workers, responsible workers, NEPmans â this is the social type of his works. All his works are imbued with the pathos of the struggle for socialist life and culture. He published essays and poems in various Jewish periodicals. He translated the works of Russian classics into Yiddish.
Yoffe died in 1941 or 1942 in Moscow.