Getzel Kressel | |
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Born | Zablotov, Galicia, Austria-Hungary | 12 June 1911
Died | 9 September 1986 Holon, Israel | (aged 75)
Language | Hebrew, Yiddish[1] |
Notable awards |
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Spouse | Izah Perlis |
Elyakim Getzel Kressel (Hebrew: אליקים גצל קרסל; 12 June 1911 – 9 September 1986) was an Israeli bibliographer and writer.
Biography
Getzel Kressel was born in Zablotov, Galicia (now Zabolotiv, Ukraine) in 1911, and immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine in 1930.[2]
He served as editor of Davar and for the Am Oved publishing house between 1945 and 1951. He was also a founder and director of the Hebrew Writers Association's Genazim Biobibliographical Institute.
Kressel's most important publication was Leksikon ha-Sifrut ha-Ivrit ba-Dorot ha-Aḥaronim ('Lexicon of Hebrew Literature in Recent Times'),[2] published in two volumes in 1965 and 1967.[1]
References
- ^ a b Goldberg, Ruvn (25 April 2019). "Getsl Kresl (Getzel Kressel)". Yiddish Leksikon. Translated by Fogel, Joshua. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ a b Oren, Shimon (2007). "Kressel, Getzel". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
- 1911 births
- 1986 deaths
- 20th-century Israeli journalists
- 20th-century Israeli male writers
- 20th-century Israeli non-fiction writers
- Israeli editors
- Israeli male journalists
- Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
- Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Ukrainian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Burials at South Cemetery in Israel