Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in

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to Jewish parents, Roshwald later emigrated to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. His most famous work is '' Level 7'' (1959), a

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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

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of humanities at the

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, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."Mordecai Roshwald
''Level 7''
, edited and with a new foreword by David Seed, University of Wisconsin Press. He lived in

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, at the time of his death.

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External links

* * Mike Strozier
"An Interview With Author Dr. Mordecai Roshwald"
Bookpleasures, November 22, 2009. 1921 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers Polish emigrants to Israel American people of Polish-Jewish descent American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Israeli emigrants to the United States {{US-novelist-1920s-stub