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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.[1] He was the father of actor David Opatoshu.

Joseph Opatoshu
Born	Yosef Meir Opatowski January 1, 1886 Mława, Congress Poland
Died	October 7, 1954(1954-10-07) (aged 68) New York City, United States
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Genre	Fiction
Children	David Opatoshu
Relatives	Danny 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; A roman fun a ferd ganev (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

• A film based on Romance of a Horsethief was released in 1971.[3] His son, David Opatoshu wrote the screenplay and it was directed by Abraham Polonsky.[4] The cast includes Yul Brynner as Captain Stoloff, Eli Wallach as Kifke, Jane Birkin as Naomi, and his son David as Schloime Kradnik.[5]

References

External links

• Works by Joseph Opatoshu in the Steven Spielberg Digital Library
• Works by Joseph Opatoshu in Hebrew translation. Chabadlibrary.org
• Joseph Opatoshu at IMDb
• Romance of a Horsethief at IMDb
• Joseph Opatoshu's tombstone on the University of Cape Town "Tomb Stone Exhibit" web site
• Studio portrait of (right to left) Moshe (Moses) Kulbak, Joseph Opatoshu, Maks Eryk and Zalman Reisen, board members of the Yiddish P.E.N. Club.1928 (from the Vilna page on the Eilat Gordin Levitan web site)
• Portrait by Marc Chagall on the McGill University Digital Collections Program web site
• "Workbook" on the Asch-Howe Quarrel, on the Hartford, Connecticut, Trinity College web site

На других языках

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- [en] Joseph Opatoshu

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[ru] Опатошу

Опато́шу (настоящие имя и фамилия — Ио́сеф-Ма́ер (Ме́ер) Опато́вский; 1887, Млава, Плоцкая губерния — 7 октября 1954, Нью-Йорк) — еврейский писатель.

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