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Lev Raphael
January 22, 1999
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The
son of Holocaust survivors, Lev Raphael was one of the first
of America's Second Generation writers and started publishing
short stories about children of survivors in 1978. Many of
these stories were collected in his award-winning book, Dancing
on Tisha B'Av.
Lev Raphael is the author of seventeen books published
in nearly a dozen languages, including two novels about
survivors,
Winter Eyes and The German Money, and a collection of Jewish
memoirs and essays, Journeys & Arrivals. His most recent
collection of stories, Secret Anniversaries of the Heart,
was released in 2006, as well as Writing a Jewish Life:
Memoirs.
Raphael's fiction has been widely anthologized in the U.S.
and Britain, most recently in the anthology Criminal
Kabbalah,
which contains Lev's latest story featuring a child of survivors: "Your
Papers, Please."
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Born and raised in
New York City, he received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and
English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he
won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize for a Holocaust-themed story
later published in Redbook. Winner of the Reed Smith Fiction
Prize and International Quarterly's Prize for Innovative Prose
(judged by D. M. Thomas), Raphael holds a Ph.D. in American Studies
from Michigan State University. Raphael taught at the university
level in New York, Massachusetts and Michigan for 13 years and
the first course he designed was a multi-disciplinary study of
the Holocaust. He left teaching over a decade ago to write and
review full-time.
"Lev Raphael's stories are as thrilling as his thrillers,
but for an entirely different set of reasons: the psychological perspicacity,
good humor and deep empathy with which he approaches all
the secret
anniversaries of the heart—his lovely title—that
make up his characters' wonderfully flawed humanity." -Jonathan
Wilson, author of A Palestine Affair
For more information on Lev Raphael, please visit his website:
http://www.levraphael.com
To view Special Collections' holdings of Raphael's work,
please click here.
To hear Raphael read from his own work, please visit the
Vincent Voice Library.
May 1, 2018 Update: Lev Raphael is the author of twenty-five books.
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Last Updated:
May 2, 2018
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