Elyakim Getzel Kressel (; 12 June 1911 – 9 September 1986) was an Israeli bibliographer and writer.

Biography

Getzel Kressel was born in Zablotov,

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(now Zabolotiv, Ukraine) in 1911, and immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine in 1930. He served as editor of ''

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'' and for the Am Oved publishing house between 1945 and 1951. He was also a founder and director of the Hebrew Writers Association's Genazim Biobibliographical Institute. Kressel's most important publication was ''Leksikon ha-Sifrut ha-Ivrit ba-Dorot ha-Aḥaronim'' ('Lexicon of Hebrew Literature in Recent Times'), published in two volumes in 1965 and 1967.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kressel, Getzel 1911 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Israeli journalists 20th-century Israeli male writers 20th-century Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli editors Israeli male journalists Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Ukrainian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at South Cemetery in Israel