Getzel Kressel

Ussishkin Prize [he] (1963)
Bialik Prize (1968)

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Elyakim Getzel Kressel (Hebrew: אליקים גצל קרסל; 12 June 1911 – 9 September 1986) was an Israeli bibliographer and writer.

Biography

Getzel Kressel was born in Zablotov, Galicia (now Zabolotiv, Ukraine) in 1911, and immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine in 1930.^[2]

He served as editor of Davar and for the Am Oved publishing house between 1945 and 1951. He was also a founder and director of the Hebrew Writers Association's Genazim Biobibliographical Institute.

Kressel's most important publication was Leksikon ha-Sifrut ha-Ivrit ba-Dorot ha-Aḥaronim ('Lexicon of Hebrew Literature in Recent Times'),^[2] published in two volumes in 1965 and 1967.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Goldberg, Ruvn (25 April 2019). "Getsl Kresl (Getzel Kressel)". Yiddish Leksikon. Translated by Fogel, Joshua. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b Oren, Shimon (2007). "Kressel, Getzel". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.