Poet, translator, physician
Olga gives memory a new language.
She listens for the emotional truth of a Jewish song, then writes Russian words that feel as if they have always belonged to its melody.
Olga’s work made Jewish Songs for All possible. Walter later translates and adapts her Russian versions into English.
Russian poetic versionsYiddish translatorPoetry + medicine two forms of care
Olga AnikinaA Handful of Happiness. Olga performs her own 2009 Russian version of the Yiddish song A Bisele Mazl.