{"id":17384,"date":"2014-07-28T22:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T04:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=17384"},"modified":"2014-07-29T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:34:30","slug":"writer-bel-kaufman-dies-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/writer-bel-kaufman-dies-at-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Bel Kaufman dies at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Writer Bel Kaufman,  granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufman, author of the 1965 hit novel \u201cUp the Down Staircase,\u201d died Friday in Manhattan at the age of 103.<\/p>\n<p>The novel was based on her experienced teaching in public school in New York City. She used real memos from the administration and other documents to tell the story of a fictional teacher working to inspire her students despite the bureaucracy and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The book was made into a movie in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufman was born in Berlin and grew up  in Odessa and Kiev. She came to the United States in 1923 and earned a master\u2019s degree from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p>She had trouble obtaining a job in the public schools due to her lingering Russian accent, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 99, Kaufman taught a course on Jewish  humor called \u201cSix Weeks of Laughter\u201d at her undergraduate alma mater Hunter College in New York.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Writer%20Bel%20Kaufman%20dies%20at%20103\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5797,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17385,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17384\/revisions\/17385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}