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Daniel Mendelsohn

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Daniel Mendelsohn · Arts & Literature

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1960, New York, United States

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United States

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Daniel Mendelsohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

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Daniel Mendelsohn is an American author, classicist, and critic best known for 'The Lost', his acclaimed investigation of six relatives killed in the Holocaust, and for essays and translations bridging ancient Greek literature and modern life. He writes widely for The New Yorker and other journals. Mendelsohn is Jewish, from an American Jewish family, and his Jewish heritage is central to much of his work.

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