The Coachman and other stories

by Gershon Kranzler, Zalman Kleinman (Illustrator)

Overview

A selection of moving stories of Jewish life written by master storyteller Dr. Gershon Kranzler.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156840038
Publisher:	Kehot Publication Society
Publication date:	09/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Born in Germany in 1916, Gershon Kranzler was able to see Torah and Derech Eretz in harmony. He studied at studied at the Maximillian University in
Wurzburg, and the Hildesheimer University in Berlin, completing a doctorate in Philosophy in 1938, and a doctorate in sociology at Columtia University later. He worked with Vaad Hatzalah during World War II, and had a long career in Jewish education, serving as assistant principal of
Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn, principal
of Zichron Moshe in the Bronx, and principal of Bais Yaakov on the Lower East
Side, creating the Esther
Schonfeld High School there, and presiding over a productive time at Talmudical Academy of Baltimore from 1955 until 1966. (Source: an article by Tzvi Hirsh Weinreb in the OU's web magazine, Jewish Action, Winter 2000.)