Yosef Tunkel

Yosef Tunkel
Yosef Tunkel, Warsaw 1922
Born1881
Babruysk, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus)
DiedAugust 9, 1949 (aged 6768)
New York, U.S.

Yosef Tunkel (1881 – August 9, 1949) was a Jewish–Belarusian–American writer of poetry and humorous prose in Yiddish commonly known by the pen name Der Tunkeler or 'The dark one' in Yiddish.