He was born into a
Jewish family from
Bessarabia; his father, Shmuel, was a tailor. During
World War II, he was taken to
Tajikistan and to
Zlatoust, in the
Urals. Upon his return to Moldova, he met intellectuals such as
Valeriu Gagiu,
Alexander Gelman or
Alexander Brodsky. From 1954, he lived in
Stalino (Donetsk), and after training (1957-1959) at the
Stalin Technical School as a cultural employee, he worked as an accordionist and a music teacher. He joined a group of local poets, was a close friend of the Ukrainian poet
Vasyl Stus and published in the newspaper
Komsomolets Donbassa. Berinsky lived and worked in Moldova in 1960-1961. Afterwards, he returned to Donetsk. From 1963 to 1968 he studied at the
Smolensk Pedagogical Institute and translation at the
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. From 1970 to 1974 he taught
German at the
Moscow Trade Union Technical Institute. He has lived in Israel since 1991. ==References==