Joel Shatzky

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Joel Shatzky (born November 30, 1943 in Vancouver / Washington ; died April 3, 2020 ) was an American writer and literature professor.

biography

Shatzky, who grew up in the Bronx, attended Music and Art High School and Queens College . He studied at the City University of New York (CUNY), received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1965 and a doctorate in dramatic literature from New York University in 1970 . From 1968 until his retirement in 2005 he taught at the State University of New York .

His play It's a Clean, Well-lighted Place was released in 1976 at the theater of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts . The play The Day They Traded Seaver was staged in 1979 by Soho Artists under the direction of Dino Narrizano . Several one-act plays were then played at Thirteenth Street Rep and the One Dream Theater . Further pieces were u. a. Produced in Philadelphia, San Francisco and at the Improv Theater in Los Angeles.

With his wife Dorothy, Shatzky wrote the book Facing Multiple Sclerosis: Our Longest Journey (1999). In 2002 his novel Iago's Tale was published . The standard works Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists (1997) and Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets (1999) were created in collaboration with Michael Taub . The former was named the Outstanding Book of 1997 by Choice magazine . His preoccupation with the history of the Holocaust led to the publication of the memoirs of the Holocaust survivors Susan Cernyak-Spatz ( Protective Custody Prisoner 34042 ) and Norbert Troller ( Theresienstadt: Hitler's “Gift” to the Jews ).

Works

  • Ed .: Norbert Troller Theresienstadt: Hitler's “Gift” to the Jews 1991 New edition 2004
  • with Michael Taub: Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists 1997
  • with Michael Taub: Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets 1999
  • with Dorothy Shatzky: Facing Multiple Sclerosis: Our Longest Journey , 1999
  • with Ellen Hill : The Thinking Crisis: The Disconnection of Teaching and Learning in Today's Schools 2001
  • Iago's Tale: A Novel 2002
  • Well of Evil (Young Adult Novel) 2004
  • Common Sense: What America Must Do to Save Democracy (with a foreword by Stephen Bronner ), 2004
  • Ed .: Susan Cernyak-Spatz Protective Custody Prisoner 34042 2005
  • with Joanne Napoli : Eternal Duet: The Story of Robert and Clara Schumann , 2005
  • Option Three: A Novel about the University , 2005
  • Intelligent Design: A Fable Science Fiction Novel 2007

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colin Spencer: Retired SUNY professor dies from virus complications. In: The Cortland Standard. April 8, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Shatzky, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and professor of literature
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver (Washington)
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2020