… still very much alive and entertaining, as we can read in today’s NYT: At 100 years old, Ms. Kaufman [author of Up the Down Staircase (1965)] is still shpritzing jokes, Jewish and otherwise, which is in her genes. Her grandfather was the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem, a writer who was able to squeeze heartbreaking … Continue reading Bel Kaufman