Getzel Kressel
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Getzel Kressel | |
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| Native name | גצל קרסל |
| Born | 12 June 1911 |
| Died | 9 September 1986 (aged 75) |
| Language | Hebrew, Yiddish[1] |
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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
[edit | edit source]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
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Categories:
- 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
- Bialik Prize recipients
- People from Holon