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Kober was born into a Jewish family in Brody, Galicia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of western Ukraine). His family emigrated to the United States when he was 4. They first moved to Harlem before settling in The Bronx.
Kober's stories and plays; they portray the Polish-Jewish-immi grant experience in urban America?quite specifically his and his family's experiences in East Harlem. The introduction to My Dear Bella, one of Arthur Kober's collections of stories about Ma, Pa, and Bella Gross, is the author's second public tribute to his mother, Tillie Ballison ...
KOBER, ARTHUR. KOBER, ARTHUR (1900– 1975), U.S. humorist and playwright. Born in Brody, Galicia, Kober was raised in New York, which forms the scene of his amusing books about Jewish life, including Thunder over the Bronx (1935), My Dear Bella (1941; published in England as Parm Me, 1945), Bella, Bella, Kissed a Fella (1951), and Ooh, What ...
Fans of Jewish dialect humor should consult the works of Arthur Kober, Milt Gross, and, if they can find it, Harry Hershfield, whose long-running comic strip character Abie Kabibbe spouted a wonderful Yinglish and occasionally even wrote theater and film reviews in that argot for the New York Evening Journal (despite the fact that he was a ...
- Josh Lambert
She attended New York University for a time and in 1924 went to work for the prestigious publishing house Boni and Liveright. The following year, she married the writer Arthur Kober. Five years later, they moved to Hollywood, where Kober was employed as a screenwriter.
Mar 11, 2019 · As a boy, you listened as your father read aloud stories by Arthur Kober, written in a Bronx Yiddish-American dialect, and Octavus Roy Cohen, a South Carolina-born Jewish author. Were these...
Jun 13, 1975 · It was Mr. Kober who played a major role in taking the English spoken by first‐generation Jews in the Bronx and making it a lingua franca for all those who relished humor with a dollop of ...
