One hundred 3-speed Bel Kaufman
101 it once a week went to the dance. Yes, high heels, as expected. Creator of the famous book " Up the stairs, speaker down " (Up The Down Staircase) always climbed Verhoture life And at the same time, neglecting the difficulties And pain, dazzling smiled And teased him.
Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of the classic Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem, teacher,
who in the 60-ies of the sharpest critic of the school system in the United States,
died on the last working day of the week, July 24, at own penthouse on Park Avenue in Manhattan. She was 103 years. The death of the writer agreed Her daughter Thea Goldstein.
more than 1 year, the Book " Up the stairs, speaker down " hit the bestseller list of Newspapers the new York times when it first came out in 1965. Just sold More than six million copies. The book was translated into two dozen languages, including Russian. In the description of the road to Calvary teacher regular middle school new York city it was based on his own experience as a teacher.
in 1967 he released the film adaptation of the book, directed by Robert Mulligan. In the main role of the teacher is of an idealist Sylvia Barrett made sandy Dennis.
The book And movie of the same name brought Bel Kaufman worldwide fame. And immediately after they come out to readers And viewers, And many years later she acted in the most different audiences on the topic of school education And upbringing of children And adolescents.
needless to say, without it costing different jubilee And thematic events in honor of Sholom Aleichem, Her grandfather on the maternal line.
Kaufman wrote another novel, " Love And all things " (Love, Etc) about a middle-aged woman going through a divorce with her husband. The book was published in 1979, But the special Lavrov author is not earned.
Bel Kaufman was born in 1911 in Berlin, where Her Dad - Michael -
he studied medicine. Her mother, Lala Rabinowitz Kaufman was the eldest daughter of Sholom Aleichem And also engaged in literary work. Childhood Bel took place in Odessa, where he moved Her family. The rest of the family went to Denmark And Palestine. The terrible events of the Russian revolution of 1917 forced the Kaufmans to leave the United States. Bel was then 12 years old. They settled in the Bronx.
in 1934, Bel Kaufman graduated with honors from hunter College, and a master's degree in English language received two years later at Columbia University.
For several years she unsuccessfully tried to pass the exam to receive certificate for school teachers. It failed the oral exam because of the strong Russian accent. But persistence emigrant took effect, And she was admitted to teaching.
Almost a hundred years Professor Bel Kaufman read a course of lectures on Jewish humor in native hunter College, becoming the eldest teacher of higher education institution in America. Literally until the last day she worked at the Desk - as a writer And memoirist, having mastered the computer And emailing.
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