Mordecai Roshwald
1921
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2015
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America, Israel
educated at: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
occupation: novelist, science fiction writer, philosopher
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Ukraine to Jewish parents, Roshwald later emigrated to Israel. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel. He is also the author of A Small Armageddon (1962) and Dreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction (2008). Roshwald was a "professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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