Bel Kaufman has died. Her maternal grandfather was Sholem Aleichem. Her other grandfather was my great-great-uncle—my great-great-grandfather's older brother, Jacob Kaufman. She was still teaching at 100, writing at 101. I grew up knowing about her, but I never read any of her Yiddish stories, only the famous novel. It's a good novel.
Links
Page Summary
Active Entries
- 1: Does everybody know he's a ghost?
- 2: Broken like the earth or a name for a first love or a lesson in shame
- 3: Life, a series of memorials and signals
- 4: I want to show you all the versions of myself
- 5: If you don't want the death of the party after I'm gone, sing one for me
- 6: Once you've gone, remains the question, baby
- 7: That gossip's eye will look too soon
- 8: I left my mind behind in 2015
Style Credit
- Style: Classic for Refried Tablet by
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zvi and
Expand Cut Tags
No cut tags