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Joseph Opatoshu (Yiddish: יוסף אָפּאַטאָשו) (January 1, 1886 – October 7, 1954) was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer. He was the father of actor David Opatoshu .
OPATOSHU, JOSEPH (originally Opatovsky; 1886–1954), Yiddish novelist and short-story writer. Born near Mlave (Poland), Opatoshu immigrated to the U.S. in 1907, where he studied engineering at Cooper Union at night, while supporting himself by working in a shoe factory, selling newspapers, and teaching in Hebrew schools.
Joseph Opatoshu was a Polish-born Yiddish-language novelist and short-story writer. He was born Josef Mair Opatowski on Christmas Eve in 1886, in Stupski Las, near Mława.
Joseph Opatoshu, Yiddish Writer. Born Yoysef-Meyer Opatovsky on Christmas Eve, 1886 near Mława, Poland, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1907.
OPATOSHU, JOSEPH (originally Opatovsky; 1886–1954), Yiddish novelist and short-story writer. Born near Mlave (Poland), Opatoshu immigrated to the U.S. in 1907, where he studied engineering at Cooper Union at night, while supporting himself by working in a shoe factory, selling newspapers, and teaching in Hebrew schools.
Joseph Opatoshu (originally Opatovsky) was born near Mlave, Poland, in 1886 and died in New York City in 1954. He immigrated to the United States in 1907. He studied engineering at Cooper Union at night; one of the ways he supported himself was by teaching in Hebrew schools.
The panoramic perspective of this story provides a focused and urgent example of Opatoshu’s lifelong commitment to an aesthetic of literary realism, a practice that in its broadest dimensions serves to illustrate, valorize, and critique the processes by which a society rationalizes and modernizes itself.
