Tuesday, 8 September 2015

M. GELBFISH

M. GELBFISH (b. 1896)
            He was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a Hassidic family.  He received both a Jewish and a general education.  He graduated from a commercial school.  He was the author of Bukhhalterye far ale, topele yidish-poylishe bukhfirung: di laykhste metode zikh oystsulernen on der hilf fun a lerer, di topele bukhfirung, teorye un praktik (Bookkeeping for everyone, double-entry Yiddish-Polish bookkeeping: the easiest method to learn without the help of a teacher, double-entry bookkeeping, theory and practice) (Warsaw, 1927), 150 pp.  This volume, written at the time of the Grabski decrees on small enterprises in Poland, was a book on how to keep books and was very important for small Jewish businessmen who had no capacity to employ their own bookkeepers.


Source: Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), p. 342.

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