Getzel Kressel

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

Getzel Kressel was born in Zablotov, Galicia (now Zabolotiv, Ukraine) in 1911, and immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine in 1930.

[2] He served as editor of Davar 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'),[2] published in two volumes in 1965 and 1967.