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Joseph Leftwich ( 1892 - 1984 ), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British - Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature .1He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry , and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill . He was one of the ' Whitechapel Boys' group (the others being John Rodker , Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten ) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910-1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler .2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Joseph Leftwich (1892 - 1984), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British - Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature . He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry , and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill . He was one of the ' Whitechapel Boys ' group (the others being John Rodker , Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten ) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910-1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler .
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Joseph Leftwich, circa 1937 Joseph Leftwich (1892–1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British - Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature . He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry , and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill . He was one of the ' Whitechapel Boys ' group (the others being John Rodker , Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten ) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910–1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler . His daughter Joan married the American writer Joseph McElroy . see the dedication page in The Golden Peacock from the McElroy biography in Vineta Colby (ed) World Authors 1975-1980
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Joseph Leftwich, circa 1937 Joseph Leftwich (1892–1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature . He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry , and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill . He was one of the ' Whitechapel Boys ' group (the others being John Rodker , Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten ) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910–1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler . His daughter Joan married the American writer Joseph McElroy . see the dedication page in The Golden Peacock from the McElroy biography in Vineta Colby (ed) World Authors 1975-1980
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British critic and translator Joseph Leftwich, circa 1937 Joseph Leftwich ( Zutphen September 28 1892 – Islington February 28 1983 ), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature .
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British critic and translator Joseph Leftwich (28 September 1892 – 28 February 1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz , was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature .
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british - jewish critic and translator into english of yiddish yiddish poetry
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british critic and translator into english of yiddish
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