Curt Leviant is a retired Jewish Studies Professor from
Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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He received his BA from
CUNY (Brooklyn)Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New York...
, his MA from
ColumbiaColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
, and his PhD. from
RutgersRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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Prof. Leviant is a prolific translator of
Yiddish LiteratureYiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of the Yiddish language, with its roots in central Europe and its centuries of locus in Eastern Europe, is evident in the literature produced in...
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- The Yemenite Girl. Bobbs-Merrill ( edition unknown), 1973; mass market edition published by Avon/Bard Books, 1978; trade paperback reissue by Syracuse University Press/Library of Modern Jewish Literature, 1999
- Passion in the Desert Avon/Bard Books mass market original, 1980; (o.p.)
- The Man Who Thought He Was Messiah.
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Curt Leviant is a retired Jewish Studies Professor from
Rutgers UniversityRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
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New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
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He received his BA from
CUNY (Brooklyn)Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New York...
, his MA from
ColumbiaColumbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City...
, and his PhD. from
RutgersRutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States...
.
Prof. Leviant is a prolific translator of
Yiddish LiteratureYiddish literature encompasses all belles lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The history of the Yiddish language, with its roots in central Europe and its centuries of locus in Eastern Europe, is evident in the literature produced in...
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Novels
- The Yemenite Girl. Bobbs-Merrill ( edition unknown), 1973; mass market edition published by Avon/Bard Books, 1978; trade paperback reissue by Syracuse University Press/Library of Modern Jewish Literature, 1999
- Passion in the Desert Avon/Bard Books mass market original, 1980; (o.p.)
- The Man Who Thought He Was Messiah. Jewish Publication Society, 1990
- Partita in Venice. Livingston Press, 1999
- Diary of an Adulterous Woman: A Novel: Including an ABC Dictionary That Offers Alphabetical Tidbits and Surprises. Syracuse University Press/Library of Modern Jewish Literature, 2001
- Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustara: Two Novellas. University of Wisconsin Press/Library of American Fiction, 2002
Translations
Prof. Leviant has translated from Yiddish to English many books from noted authors such as:
Sholom AleichemSholem Aleichem was the pen name of Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, the popular humorist and Jewish author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. He did much to promote Yiddish writers, and was the first to pen children's literature in Yiddish.His work has been widely...
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Chaim GradeChaim Grade – April 26 1982, Los Angeles, California, Buried in Riverside Cemetery Saddle Brook, NJ) was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century....
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Isaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American Nobel Prize-winning author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.- Early life :...
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- The Yeshiva; by Chaim Grade.
- Agunah; by Chaim Grade.
- More Stories from my Father's Court; by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
- From the Fair; by Sholom Aleichem.