Meyer Levin
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Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold and Loeb case, Levin worked as a journalist (for the Chicago Daily News and, from 1933 to 1939, as an editor for Esquire).
Career
Levin was born in Chicago. He published six novels before World War II. Though critical response was good, none were successful financially. Reporter (1929) was a novel of the modern newspapers, Frankie and Johnny (1930) an urban romance, Yehuda (1931) takes place on a
He also wrote and directed a documentary titled "The Illegals", for the Office Of War. The film dealt with the smuggling of Jews out of Poland.[2]
Levin was a war correspondent in Europe during World War II, representing the Overseas News Agency and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.[3]
After the war, Levin wrote, with the approval of the Frank family, a play based on
Meyer wrote the 1956 novel
Levin died in Jerusalem.
Bibliography
Novels
- The Reporter (1929)
- Frankie and Johnny (1930)
- Yehuda (1931)
- The Golden Mountain: Marvelous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of his Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold from Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources (1932)
- The New Bridge (1933)
- The Old Bunch (1937)
- Citizens (1940)
- My Father's House (1947)
- Compulsion (1956)
- Eva (1959)
- The Fanatic (1964)
- The Stronghold (1965)
- Gore and Igor (1968)
- The Settlers (1972)
- The Spell of Time (1974)
- The Harvest (1978)
- The Architect (1981), (fictionalized life of Frank Lloyd Wright)
- "Classic Chassidic Tales" (1932), a gathering of the scattered legends of Baal Shem Tov[7]
Autobiographical works
- In Search (1949)
- The Obsession (1974)
Judaica
- Beginnings in Jewish Philosophy
- The Story of Israel
- An Israel Haggadah for Passover
- The Story of the Synagogue
- The Story of the Jewish Way of Life
- Hassidic Stories"[8]
Awards
- 1966: National Jewish Book Award for The Stronghold[9]
- 1967: National Jewish Book Award for The Story of Israel[10]
See also
- Gabriel Levin, his son
- Tereska Torres, his wife
References
- ^ Saturday Review of Literature, 13 March 1937
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ Fuchs, Daniel (3 January 1982). "The Life of Meyer Levin". The New York Times.
- ^ An Obsession with Anne Frank Meyer Levin and the Diary Lawrence Graver UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford 1997 The Regents of the University of California
- ^ Jake Hinkson (October 19, 2012). "Leopold and Loeb Still Fascinate 90 Years Later". criminalelement.com. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ^ "Meyer Levin's Compulsion": article by Steve Powell in "The Venetian Vase of September 21, 2012
- ^ Jason Aronson Inc. Northvale, NJ 1996
- ^ Greenfield Ltd. Publishers,1932, Box 3084 Tel Aviv Israel
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.