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Joseph Leftwich (Zutphen 28 September 1892 – Islington 28 February 1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature.




Biography


Leftwich was born in the Netherlands. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry, and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill. He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group (the others being John Rodker, Isaac Rosenberg and Stephen Winsten) of aspiring young Jewish writers in London's East End, in the period roughly 1910–1914. He himself retrospectively coined the name, to include also the artists David Bomberg and Mark Gertler.
Leftwich was a vegetarian and an active patron of the Jewish Vegetarian Society. He wrote biographies of
vegetarian writers for The Jewish Vegetarian and an introduction for the book The Tree of Life, edited by Philip Pick, an anthology of essays on Judaism and vegetarianism.
His daughter Joan married the American writer Joseph McElroy.




Works


War (1915)
What will happen to the Jews? (1936)
Along the Years, Poems: 1911–1937 (1937)
The Golden Peacock: An anthology of Yiddish Poetry (1939)
Yisroel: The First Jewish Omnibus (1933)
The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism (1948) with A. K. Chesterton
Israel Zangwill (1957) biography
The Way We Think (2 volumes) (1969) editor
Anthology of Modern Yiddish Literature (1974)
A Distant Voice: An Autobiography of Samuel Lewin, translator
Years at the Ending : Poems 1892–1982 (1984)
Soldier' song: Translation of Bálint Balassi's poem "Egy katonaének" (Hungarian)




References






Bibliography


Joseph Leftwich at Eighty-Five: A Collective Evaluation (1978)




External links


The personal papers of Joseph Leftwich are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A330.
Article on the Whitechapel Boys
Obituary in JTA

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