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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