Louis H. Rapoport (born 7 July 1942 – 20 June 1991) was a writer and senior editor of
The Jerusalem Post
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.
Biography
Rapoport was born in
Los Angeles
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. After he served two years in West Africa as a
Peace Corps
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volunteer, he achieved his degree from
UC Berkeley
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, and moved to
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. Within a few weeks, he met his future wife Sylvia.
He died on 20 June 1991.
Books
*''The Lost Jews: Last of the Ethiopian Falashas'', 1980.
*''Anatoly and Avital Sharansky'', 1986.
*''Confrontation: Israeli Life in the Year of the Uprising'', 1988.
*''Stalin's War Against the Jews; The Doctors' Plot and the Soviet Solution'', 1990.
References
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Israeli writers
1942 births
1991 deaths
The Jerusalem Post people