Joseph Opatoshu

Joseph Opatoshu (Yiddish: יוסף אָפּאַטאָשו‎) (1886–1954) was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer.[1]

Joseph Opatoshu
BornYosef Meir Opatowski
January 1, 1886
Mława, Congress Poland
DiedOctober 7, 1954(1954-10-07) (aged 68)
New York City, United States
OccupationWriter, novelist
GenreFiction
ChildrenDavid Opatoshu
RelativesDanny Opatoshu (grandson)

Biography

Opatoshu was born in 1886 as Yosef Meir Opatowski[2] to Jewish parents, Dovid and Nantshe, near Mława, Congress Poland.[1]

His father, a wood merchant, came from a Hasidic family and had become a Maskil.[1] He sent Yosef to the best Polish schools in the country. At the age of 19 Yosef went to study engineering in Nancy, France. However, privation sent him to the United States in 1907, where he settled in New York City, where his name became Joseph Opatovsky, and he later took the professional name of Joseph Opatoshu.

Works

Novels
  • 1914 From the New York Ghetto
  • 1914 Di naye heym
  • 1918 Alone: Romance of a Forest-Girl
  • 1919 Hebrew
  • 1921 In Polish Woods
  • אין פּוילישע וועלדער, 1921; translated to English from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg: In Polish woods, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938
  • 1926 1863
  • ראָמאַן פֿון א פֿערד־גנבֿ ,1917; Romance of a Horsethief
  • The Last Revolt, the story of Rabbi Akiba; translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1952
  • אַ טאָג אין רעגענסבורג, Di Goldene Pave Paris 1955; translated to English from the Yiddish by Jacob Sloan: A day in Regensburg; short stories, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1968
  • The Dancer
  • A Day in Regensburg, a writing about Jewish German Life in the sixteenth century
  • Bar-Kokhba (1953), a Hebrew novel

Film adaptation

References
  1. Keenoy, Ray (2003). "Opatoshu, Joseph (Yoysef)." In: Sorrel Kerbel (Ed.), Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 747-749.
  2. Mohrer, Fruma, and Marek Web (1998). Guide to the YIVO Archives. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. p. 207.
  3. "Romance of a Horsethief". The New York Times.
  4. "Romance of a Horsethief Details". The New York Times.
  5. "Romance of a Horsethief Cast". The New York Times.
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