Mordecai Roshwald

{{short description|American novelist}}

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| name = Mordecai Roshwald

| image = Mordecai Roshwald (2012).jpg

| alt = Roshwald in 2012

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| birth_name = Mordecai Marceli Roshwald

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|05|26}}

| birth_place = Drohobycz, [Poland]

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|03|19|1921|05|26}}{{cite news|title=Mordecai Roshwald Notice|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=174448146|accessdate=May 16, 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 21, 2015}}

| death_place = Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

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| occupation = Academic and writer

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Mordecai Marceli Roshwald (May 26, 1921 – March 19, 2015) was an American academic and writer. Born in Drohobycz, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Roshwald later made aliyah to the State of Israel.Mike Strozier, [http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/1574/1/An-Interview-With-Author-Dr-Mordecai-Roshwald/Page1.html "An Interview With Author Dr. Mordecai Roshwald"], Bookpleasures, November 22, 2009. His most famous work is Level 7 (1959), a post-apocalyptic science-fiction 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 emeritus of humanities at the University of Minnesota, and a visiting professor at many universities worldwide."Mordecai Roshwald, [http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3624.htm Level 7] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517034433/http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3624.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}, edited and with a new foreword by David Seed, University of Wisconsin Press.

He lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the time of his death.