Curt Leviant is a retired Jewish Studies professor, as well as a novelist and translator.

He came to the United States in 1938 and received his BA from CUNY (Brooklyn)

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.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...

, his MA from Columbia

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, and his PhD. from Rutgers

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

, where he taught Hebraic studies from 1960. He writes for The Nation

The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...

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Novels

• The Yemenite Girl. Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; Avon/Bard Books, 1978; Syracuse University Press, 1999
• Passion in the Desert Avon/Bard Books, 1980
• 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, 2001
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustara: Two Novellas. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Translations

Prof. Leviant has translated from Yiddish to English many books from noted authors such as: Sholem Aleichem, Chaim Grade

Chaim Grade

Chaim Grade was one of the leading Yiddish writers of the twentieth century....

, Lamed Shapiro

Lamed Shapiro

Levi Yehoshua Shapiro , better known as "Lamed Shapiro", , was an American Yiddish-language writer.-Biography:...

 and Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...

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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 Sholem Aleichem.
• The Jewish Government and Other Stories; by Lamed Shapiro.

External links

• Review: Curt Leviant's witty 'A Novel of Klass'. Orlando Sentinel
  Orlando Sentinel
  The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of the Orlando, Florida region. It was founded in 1876. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Company and is overseen by the Chicago Tribune. As of 2005, the Sentinel’s president and publisher was Kathleen Waltz; she announced her resignation in February 2008...
  
  , December 07, 2008. Accessed 2011-03-01.
• Curt Leviant. The Nation
  The Nation
  The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
  
  . Accessed 2011-03-01.