Boris (Boruch) Mendelevich Dorfman (Ukrainian: Борис (Борух) Менделевич Дорфман, Yiddish: באָריס (ברוך) דאָרפמאַן; 23 May 1923 – 23 March 2022) was a Ukrainian Jewish public figure, writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist.

He authored about 1000 articles on Jewish issues in Yiddish, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and German for publications including Birobidzhaner Shtern and Советиш Геймланд.^[1] He was one of the founders of Shofar, the first Jewish newspaper in the former USSR.^[1]

Dorfman was born in Cahul, Bessarabia on 23 May 1923.^[2] He died on 23 March 2022 in Lviv, at age 98, where he resided, and was buried at the local Yaniv cemetery.^[3] He was the father of Michael Dorfman, a human rights activist dedicated to reviving Yiddish culture among Russian and Ukrainian Jews.

Selected articles

• Dorfman, Boris. "Элиезер Штеинбарг, Яков Штеренберг и Моше Альтман — писатели, творцы духовного наследия на идиш в ХХ в" [Eliezer Shteinbarg, Jacob Sternberg and Moshe Altman - writers, creators of Yiddish spiritual heritage in the twentieth century] (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 29 December 2002. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
• Dorfman, Boris. "ИЦИК МАНГЕР И ПАУЛЬ ЦЕЛАН — ДВА ВЕЛИКИХ ПОЭТА ХХ СТОЛЕТИЯ" [Itzik Manger and Paul Celan - Two great poets of the twentieth century] (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 9 February 2008.
• Dorfman, Boris (28 August 2003). "Моисей Гершензон /1903– 1943/. ФЕНОМЕН ЕВРЕЙСКОГО КУЛЬТУРНОГО ВОЗРОЖДЕНИЯ НА УКРАИНЕ 20– 30-х годов" [Moses Gershenzon / 1903 - 1943 / Phenomenon of Jewish Cultural Renaissance in 1920s-30s Ukraine]. Proceedings of Sixth Conference (in Russian). Institute of Jewish Studies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2008.
• "Земляки". Еврейское местечко. Кишинев. December 2008.^{[dead link]}