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Curt Leviant


Born
Wienna, Austria

Curt Leviant (born 1932, Vienna) is a retired Jewish Studies professor, as well as a novelist and translator.

He came to the United States in 1938. His 1957 master's thesis was on Lamed Shapiro. 1966 doctoral thesis was a translation with commentary, published in 1969 as King Artur: A Hebrew Authurian Romance of 1279.

Leviant was also a book reviewer, usually of Jewish authors, with reviews appearing in The New York Times, The Nation, and other publications, especially Jewish media. In more recent years, he has been, co-authoring with his wife, a Jewish travel writer.

According to Lewis Fried, "his fiction is nuanced, surprising, and often arabesque, dealing with the demands of the present and the claims of the past."

His parents were Jacques a ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 800 ratings · 113 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors
Journal d'une femme adultère
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3.06 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2000 — 18 editions
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King Artus: A Hebrew Arthur...
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Kafka's Son
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the O...
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The Yemenite Girl : A Novel
3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions
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The Man Who Thought He Was ...
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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Zix Zexy Ztories
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Partita in Venice
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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King of Yiddish
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Masterpieces of Hebrew Lite...
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969 — 11 editions
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