Israel Shenker

1925 (age 82)

Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States

Shenker enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania for college but interrupted his studies to serve with the Army Air Corps in World World War World War II In 1951 Shenker married Mary Sagman, with whom he had two children named Susie and Mark. Following his retirement from journalism, the couple moved to Mary Shenker"s native Scotland, where he continued to write. He died in Israel in 2007. Shenker spent nearly 20 years as a Europe-based correspondent for Time Magazine, including serving as the magazine"s Moscow reporter until the United States.S.R. expelled him in 1964. From 1968 to 1979, Shenker was a reporter on the metropolitan staff of The New York Times. His true strengths as a reporter were on display in his profiles and interviews of interesting or prominent individuals. Among the notable figures he interviewed and profiled over the years were Isaac Asimov, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernand Braudel, Noam Chomsky, M. C. Escher, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hirschfeld, John Kenneth Galbraith, Graham Greene, Alf Landon, Marcel Marceau, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, South. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In the latter half of his career, Shenker was known in particular for his coverage of letters, lexicography and languages, especially Yiddish, to which he retained an ardent lifelong attachment. In later years, in ostensible retirement, he wrote freelance articles for The New York Times on European traveling His work also appeared in other magazines from Sports Illustrated to American Heritage, and he intermittently authored "Talk of the Town" pieces and other articles for The New Yorker from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Shenker was born in Philadelphia on January

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Following his military service, he returned to Penn and completed his bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1947. Shenker then studied briefly at the Sorbonne in Paris before embarking on his career as a journalist.

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Shenker enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania for college but interrupted his studies to serve with the Army Air Corps in World World War World War II In 1951 Shenker married Mary Sagman, with whom he had two children named Susie and Mark. Following his retirement from journalism, the couple moved to Mary Shenker"s native Scotland, where he continued to write. He died in Israel in 2007.

Shenker spent nearly 20 years as a Europe-based correspondent for Time Magazine, including serving as the magazine"s Moscow reporter until the United States.S.R. expelled him in 1964.

From 1968 to 1979, Shenker was a reporter on the metropolitan staff of The New York Times. His true strengths as a reporter were on display in his profiles and interviews of interesting or prominent individuals.

Among the notable figures he interviewed and profiled over the years were Isaac Asimov, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernand Braudel, Noam Chomsky, M. C. Escher, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hirschfeld, John Kenneth Galbraith, Graham Greene, Alf Landon, Marcel Marceau, Groucho Marx, Vladimir Nabokov, South. J. Perelman, Pablo Picasso, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In the latter half of his career, Shenker was known in particular for his coverage of letters, lexicography and languages, especially Yiddish, to which he retained an ardent lifelong attachment.

In later years, in ostensible retirement, he wrote freelance articles for The New York Times on European traveling

His work also appeared in other magazines from Sports Illustrated to American Heritage, and he intermittently authored "Talk of the Town" pieces and other articles for The New Yorker from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Harmless Drudges: Wizards of Language--Ancient, Medieval and Modern Harmless Drudges: Wizards of Language--Ancient, Medieval and Modern

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- Harmless Drudges: Wizards of Language--Ancient, Medieval and Modern
  (WORD, LANGUAGE, harmless drudges)
- Harmless Drudges Wizards of Language-ancient, medieval and modern

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