The granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, Bel Kaufman wrote this 1964 bestseller set in a NYC high school
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Bel Kaufman - Wikipedia  Bella "Bel" Kaufman (May 10, 1911  July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well ... Kaufman began work as a teacher in various New York City high schools, ... Bel has one granddaughter, Susan Goldstine, a mathematics professor. ... memorial to her famous grandfather, the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem.
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Bel Kaufman serves up a blast from a Yiddish-writing past - Week's ...  Sep 28, 2011 ... Her book "Up the Down Staircase" became a best-seller when it .... This was a hard blow for Sholem Aleichem, who wrote to Kaufman's ... In a letter dated December 15, 1915, Sholem Aleichem wrote from New York: Please have Belluchka ... At the first chance I had, after graduating high school, I ran off to...
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Bel Kaufman | Jewish Women's Archive  Bel Kaufman, best known for her novel Up the Down Staircase and its ... She is the granddaughter of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (on ... After her graduation, Kaufman began a teaching career in New York City public schools, which ... The novel was released in 1964 and spent sixty-four weeks as a best-seller,...
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Bel Kaufman Recalls Grandfather Sholom Aleichem - The New York ...  May 18, 2010 ... Bel Kaufman turned 99 last week, but did her nephew have to announce it? ... One is that she wrote a 1960s best seller, Up the Down Staircase, a novel about ... His granddaughter, living in the old country, was 5. .... The High End  Commercial  iPhone App  Find A Home  My Real Estate  List Your Home.
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Review: Ed Boland, 'The Battle for Room 314'  Mar 5, 2016 ... In 1964, a New York City high-school teacher published a novel that spent more than a year on the bestseller list. ... Up the Down Staircase, the book was called, written by a woman named Bel Kaufman. ... Perhaps the difference is that Kaufman (granddaughter of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem) wrote...
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Wiesel - Life In Mayberry  A survivor of the horrors of the Holocaust, Wiesel represents the conscience of the ... He learned Yiddish from his mother and father, and studied biblical Hebrew in school. ... This resulted in 1956 to the publication of Wiesel's first book, an 800-page ... The semi-autobiographical story appeared two years later abridged as La...
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jeopardy/1512_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SAVE THESE BOOKS FOR "LAST" | Published in 1964, it's Hubert Selby's unflinchingly realistic portrayal of residents of a NYC borough | Last Exit to Brooklyn.
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S. E. Hinton - Wikipedia  Susan Eloise Hinton (born July 22, 1948) is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during ... The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School, the Greasers and the Socs, and her desire to show sympathy toward...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - AbeBooks  A Tree Grows In Brooklyn : (The World's Best Reading) by Betty Smith and a ... Moving first novel of a family's struggle to survive in a Brooklyn tenement in ... A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie, an imaginative, alert, resourceful child, ... the century the story focuses on on an Irish-American family in Williamsburg,...
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Peopling the Past: Meet Ann Wager : The Colonial Williamsburg ...  The raw basics of reading, writing, arithmetic were all Wager could fit into the ... She was the white headmistress of the Bray School, which educated enslaved children. ... He wanted Negro children to learn how to read so they could study the Bible ... We have an excellent selection of books, although some are too advanced...
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The Age of Innocence - The New Yorker  Jun 29, 2009 ... By then in her seventies and the author of twenty-five works of fiction, she wrote that her mother, Lucretia Jonesa society hostess who, in Wharton's .... At the age of eleven, Wharton reports, she made her maiden attempt at a .... Edith Newbold Jones's formal dbut as an author took place in 1880, when a...
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An Outsider, Out of the Shadows - The New York Times  Sep 7, 2005 ... Her most famous book, "The Outsiders," about teenage gangs and ... mostly the basic facts: that she published "The Outsiders" when she was 17, that she ... "When I was writing she'd come into my room, grab my hair and throw ... Last year, tired of teenage fiction, Ms. Hinton published her first adult novel,...
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George S Kaufman facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  After attending public schools in Pittsburgh and Paterson, N.J., he studied law briefly. ... His first successful play, Dulcy (1921), written with Marc Connelly, is a satire of a ... To the Ladies (1922) reverses this, as a bright woman saves her vapid ... The classic The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) was also written with Hart.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith | Librarypoint  Young Francie Nolan, half German and half Irish, adores her handsome father, the ... Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, first published in the 1940s, was ... Betty Smith, who was raised in immigrant Brooklyn herself, wrote three other novels that ... Coming of Age -- fiction  New York City -- fiction  1900-1909 -- fiction...
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Last Exit to Brooklyn: A Novel (An ...  He also wrote unflinchingly about sexual agony, something I hadn't seen ... stories and novellas, all set in the New York Borough of Brooklyn during the 1950s, ... The book was not only controversial on account of its subject-matter; Selby's ..... as much today as they did on first publication in 1964 in the US: drug addiction,...
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Children see, hear, and understand a lot more than adults think they ...  Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo Summary & Study Guide includes .... Zlata's Diary Author: Zlata Filipovi First published: 1994 From 1991 to 1993, ... This best-selling journal of a young Bosnian girl is reminiscent of Anne Frank's diary. ...... While its authenticity as a real teen's diary has been debunked, the haunting...
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Marjorie Morningstar (novel) - Wikipedia  Marjorie Morningstar is a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk, about a woman who wants to become ... school's (Hunter College) production of The Mikado, and lands the title role. ... There Marjorie meets Noel Airman, an older man who has won some fame ... The character name Airman is a translation to English of the Yiddish...
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An Old-Fashioned Girl: Louisa May Alcott: 9781440423581: Amazon ...  An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott, the best selling ... Little Men detailed Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her ... Start reading An Old-Fashioned Girl & Eight Cousins. on your Kindle in under a minute. .... Like "Little Women," this book was written in two halves, which might explain why...
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Hello, Columbus - The New York Times  Dec 4, 2005 ... Kay Campbell, the Antioch College shiksa of Alexander Portnoy's youth -- "a ... Through Sophie Portnoy, Roth has essentially killed off the Jewish mother in .... albeit with an exclamation mark at the end: "You must change your life. ... The Library of America: Philip Roth Gary Shteyngart is the author of "The...
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Diary of a Mad Housewife: A Novel: Sue Kaufman, Maggie Estep ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Sue Kaufman was born in 1926 in New York City, where ... as an escape from the boredom and dissatisfaction she experiences as a 1960s housewife. .... I first read this book back in the mid-1980s, and I just loved it! .... I felt as if I were looking over Sue Kaufman's shoulder as she wrote.
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Paperback - Barnes & Noble  Oct 1, 2016 ... Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of .... But I'm not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. .... wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews .... Since Anne and her family were Jewish, they had to go into hiding,...