Joseph Leftwich (Zutphen 28 September 1892 – Islington 28 February 1983), born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature.[1]
Leftwich was a vegetarian and an active patron of the Jewish Vegetarian Society.[1] 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.[1]
His daughter Joan[3] married the American writer Joseph McElroy.[4]
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)