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Name: Leo C(alvin) Rosten
Variant Name: Leo C. Rosten, Leo Calvin Rosten, Leonard Ross, Leonard Q. Ross, Leonard Q Ross, Leo Rosten, Leo (Calvin) Rosten
Birth Date: April 11, 1908
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Polish, Jewish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Leo C(alvin) Rosten
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Although known as a social scientist of some reputation, Leo Calvin Rosten is best recognized as a humorist who often writes under the pseudonyms Leonard Ross and Leonard Q. Ross. His extraordinarily popular first book, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N...


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Leo Calvin Rosten ( 11 April 1908 – 19 February 1997 ) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan and for The Joys of Yiddish (1968). Sourced The only thing I can say...


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Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan (first...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Leo Rosten
02/21/1997: 910 words, approx. 3 pages
Leo Rosten wrote a torrent of books of which two have remained classics, The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937), and The Joys of Yiddish (1968). The first was the product of an unhappy phase in his life during the Depression when, although he...
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The Jewish Week
The Joys Of Leo Rosten: Remembering the man who made `shlep' a
02/28/1997: 1,631 words, approx. 5 pages
The Jewish Week 02-28-1997 The Joys Of Leo Rosten: Remembering the man who made 'shlep' a household word. 'He who laughs, lasts." That's Leo Rosten quoting himself, in his final book. The prolific author and wit, who died last week in...
 


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