![]() ![]() ![]() There, she graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College and with high honors from Columbia University. The family also lived in Moscow before immigrating to New York City when Kaufman was twelve. Her family moved to Odessa when she was three, and Russian is her native language. Kaufman was born in Berlin, the daughter of Russian parents and granddaughter of celebrated Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. 1911) was a bestselling writer, dedicated teacher, and lecturer best known for her novel Up the Down Staircase (1965), a classic portrayal of life in the New York public school system. ![]() The success of Up the Down Staircase launched her second career as a Bel Kaufman (b. Kaufman then worked as a high school teacher in the city for three decades. ![]()
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