Mordecai Roshwald
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Mordecai Roshwald was born in Drohobycz, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Roshwald later made aliyah to the State of Israel. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel.
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- Name
- Mordecai Roshwald
- Birth Name
- Mordecai Marceli Roshwald
- Born
- 26 May 1921
- Birthplace
- Drohobycz, Poland
- Died
- 19 March 2015
- Place of death
- Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Occupation
- Academic and writer
- Nationality
- United States · Israel
- Fields
- science fiction · speculative fiction
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Languages
- English · Hebrew
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Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Mordecai Roshwald was born in Drohobycz, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Roshwald later made aliyah to the State of Israel. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel.
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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.
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• Name — Mordecai Roshwald • Birth Name — Mordecai Marceli Roshwald • Born — 26 May 1921 • Birthplace — Drohobycz, Poland • Died — 19 March 2015 • Place of death — Silver Spring, Maryland, United States • Occupation — Academic and writer
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The authorities additionally record the heading Mordecai Marceli Roshwald. His recorded languages were English and Hebrew.
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Mordecai Roshwald is recorded as novelist, philosopher, poet, social scientist and writer.
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1921
Mordecai Roshwald was born in 1921 at Drohobych.
2015
Mordecai Roshwald died in 2015 at Silver Spring.
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