Mordecai Roshwald
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DiedMarch 19, 2015 (aged 93)[1]
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
OccupationsAcademic and writer
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| Born | Mordecai Marceli Roshwald May 26, 1921 |
| Died | March 19, 2015 (aged 93)[1] Silver Spring, Maryland, United States |
| Occupations | Academic and writer |
Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Roshwald later made aliyah to the State of Israel.[2] 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."[3]
He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death.
