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Lev Raphael (born May 19, 1954) is an American writer of Jewish heritage....

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  • Lev Raphael (born May 19, 1954) is an American writer of Jewish heritage.
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    • Lev Raphael

    American writer of Jewish heritage (born 1954)

    Lev Raphael (born May 19, 1954) is an American writer of Jewish heritage.[1] He has published work in a variety of genres, including literary fiction, murder mysteries, fantasy, short stories, memoir and non-fiction,[1] and is known for being one of the most prominent LGBT figures in contemporary Jewish American literature.[2] He is one of the first American-Jewish writers to publish fiction about children of Holocaust survivors, beginning to do so in 1978.

    Background

    He was born as Reuben Lewis Steinberg in New York City.[2] His Holocaust survivor parents were culturally Jewish but not religious. As an adult, he changed his name to Lev as a part of reclaiming his Jewish heritage,[1] and later adopted the surname Raphael to reaffirm his Jewishness and abandoned a German one.[1]

    He studied English at Fordham University[2] and creative writing