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Isacovici grew up in Sighetu Marmaţiei on his parents" farm.
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Salomon Isacovici
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Born in Romania, he moved to Ecuador following World World War II, and co-authored with Juan Manuel Rodriguez the book A book co-authored by Isacovici and Juan Manuel Rodriguez was published in Mexico in 1990 as The book recounted Isacovici"s youth in Romania, his years in Nazi Germany, and his eventual emigration to Ecuador. lieutenant was described by its publisher as a "cruel and truthful testimony of the Nazi concentration camps". The book was a commercial and critical success.
In 1995, the University of Nebraska Press planned to an English-language version, with a translation by Dick Gerdes, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia.
The university press described the book as important to Holocaust studies as a rare account of a Romanian and Latin American Jew. However, its publication was delayed by a dispute about the book"s principal authorship and status as a novel or autobiography.
Isacovici asserted that the book was his memoir, and that he had hired Rodriguez to improve the Spanish text. Rodriguez threatened legal action, stating that the book was fictionalized, incorporated some of his own memories, and argued he was the main author and should be credited as such.
The controversy has been critiqued as an example of literary usurpation and as an attempt to cast doubt on a Holocaust survivor"s experience.
The English translation was published in 1999 with Isacovici and Rodriguez listed as co-authors. Isacovici died of cancer in February 1998, a year before the publication of the English translation of.
