Bel Kaufman

Bel Kaufman

Infobox Person


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name = Bel Kaufman
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birth_place = Berlin, Germany
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occupation = Writer and professor

Bel Kaufman (born May 10, 1911) is a Russian-American professor and author. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is best known for her 1965 best-seller, "Up the Down Staircase". The semi-autobiographical novel is about an idealistic young honors college graduate who becomes an English teacher, hoping to share her love of classic literature (especially Chaucer) and writing with her students. However, her idealism is quickly snuffed out by the gritty realities of her colleagues and students who populate the novel's fictional inner-city high school.

Though she has written few fictional novels since "Up the Down Staircase", she has continued as a teacher and lecturer.

Kaufman is the granddaughter of famed Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem.ref harvard|RJM01|R. Marder 2001|a She is an honorary chairman of the Yiddish studies faculty at Columbia University. ref harvard|columbia2006|Columbia Uni. 2006|a

elected bibliography

*"Up the Down Staircase" (1965)
*"Love, etc." (1979)

References

*cite web
author=Rabbi Janet Marder
work=Rabbi Marder sermons archive. Shabbat Shuvah 5762. "The Mitzvah of Gathering"
title=The Mitzvah of Gathering
year=2001-09-21
accessdate=2006-02-17
url=http://www.betham.org/sermons/marder092101.html
*cite web
title=Yiddish studies faculty
accessdate=2006-02-17
url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cijs/yidd/yidfac.html


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  • Up the Down Staircase (film) — Infobox Film name = Up the Down Staircase image size = caption = director = Robert Mulligan producer = Alan J. Pakula writer = Bel Kaufman (novel) Tad Mosel narrator = starring = Sandy Dennis Patrick Bedford Eileen Heckart music = Fred Karlin… …   Wikipedia

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