Sunday 14 April 2019

NAFTOLE KRAVETS (NATHANIEL KRAVITZ)


NAFTOLE KRAVETS (NATHANIEL KRAVITZ) (1904-August 2, 1979)
            He wrote stories and mainly essays on cultural historical themes.  He contributed to: Kalifornyer yontef bleter (California holiday sheets), Shikago (Chicago), Der idisher kuryer (The Jewish courier) in Chicago (co-editor from 1945), Undzer eygn vort (Our own word) in New York, and other serials.  Over the years 1946-1949, he edited Der idisher veg (The Jewish way) in Chicago.  A longer work of his appeared in Shul-pinkes (School records) in Chicago (1948).  In book form: Funem shturm (Out of the storm)—1. “Eseyen” (Essays); 2. “Zakuta der zeher” (Zakuta the seer)—(Philadelphia: Idisher klub, 1938), 231 pp., English edition as well; Toyre-lernen bay idn (Torah study for Jews) (Chicago: Idish visn, 1944), 32 pp.; Pirke avot (Ethics of the Father), translated in Yiddish and English, with an anthology of commentaries (Chicago, 1951), 144 pp.  Kravets’s most important book in English was: 3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature from the Earliest Time through the 20th Century (London: W. Allen, 1973), 586 pp.  His pen name: Naftole ben Harav.  He died in Chicago.
Berl Cohen


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