103. She was survived by her husband, Sidney Gluck, a brother Sherwin Kaufman, her daughter Thea Goldstine, her son Jonathan Goldstine, and her granddaughter, Susan Goldstine. Awards and honors Honorary chairman of the Yiddish Studies faculty at Columbia University Board of Directors for the Sholem Aleichem Memorial Foundation Anti-Defamation League award United Jewish Appeal award Member of Hall of Fame, Hunter College Selected bibliography Up the Down Staircase (1964) Love, etc. (1979) References External links Sidney J. Gluck (personal site) Bel Kaufman papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections 1911 births 2014 deaths American centenarians American women novelists Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty Hunter College alumni Writers from Odesa Odesa Jews Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Jewish American novelists 20th-century American novelists Writers from New York City 20th-century American women writers Sholem Aleichem Novelists from New York (state) Women centenarians Expatriates from the Russian Empire in Germany