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Bella Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel Up the Down Staircase. Early life. Bella's father, Michael Kaufman (Mikhail Y. Koyfman) and her mother, Lala (Lyalya) Kaufman (née Rabinowitz) were both from Russia and married in 1909.
Jul 25, 2014 · Bel Kaufman, a former New York City schoolteacher whose classic first novel, “Up the Down Staircase” — shot through with despair and hopefulness, violence and levity, bureaucratic inanity...
Jun 23, 2021 · Bel Kaufman was a writer and the granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. She wrote the bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase, which satirized New York City's public school bureaucracy.
Mar 18, 2013 · Bel Kaufman, the daughter of East European immigrants and granddaughter of Yiddish novelist Sholom Aleichem, emigrated from Odessa with her family in 1923 when she was twelve, quickly learned English, and used the public libraries voraciously.
May 11, 2011 · Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem, taught a course on Jewish humor this year at Hunter College, where she graduated in 1934.
Jul 27, 2014 · Bel Kaufman, who wrote the 1960s hit novel “Up the Down Staircase,” about teaching in an inner-city school, lectured widely on the topic “surviving through humor.”
Jul 26, 2014 · Bel Kaufman, who turned her experiences teaching in the New York City public schools into the comic novel “Up the Down Staircase,” one of the best-selling books of the 1960s, which was later...
