KAUFMAN, BEL

KAUFMAN, BEL
KAUFMAN, BEL (1911– ), U.S. author. Born in Berlin, Kaufman was the granddaughter of the Yiddish writer shalom aleichem . Up the Down Staircase (1965), an amusing book based on her experiences as a teacher in New York City, was made into a motion picture. She also wrote short stories and published translations from the Russian.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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