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Joel Carmichael (December 31, 1915 – January 27, 2006) was an American historian, magazine editor, and translator.
Joel Carmichael | |
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| Born | Joel Lipsky December 31, 1915 New York City |
| Died | January 27, 2006 (aged 90) Manhattan |
| Occupation | historian, magazine editor, translator |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | The Death of Jesus |
| Spouse | Mary Carr Thomas Elizabeth de Cuevas |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Eleazar Lipsky (brother), David Lipsky (brother) |
Early life and education
Born Joel Lipsky on December 31, 1915, in New York City, Carmichael was the youngest son of Charlotte Schacht and Louis Lipsky, a founder of the American Zionist movement, President of the Zionist Organization of America. His oldest brother, David (1907–1996) became a publicist; his middle brother, Eleazar (1911–1993), was a lawyer, novelist, journalist, playwright and active Zionist.[1]
Following graduation from high school, he was sent for a year to Palestine. There he began learning Arabic before returning to New York and attending Columbia University. In England, a chance meeting with an Oxford don turned him to read Greek and Russian at Oxford.[2]
Career
His first book, a translation of a memoir of the Russian Revolution, helped Carmichael land a contract with Oxford University Press.[2] From there, he wrote numerous titles on early Christianity, Arab history and Russian history, and translated Anna Karenina for a new paperback edition. One book, The Death of Jesus, was translated into eight languages. Carmichael was also editor of Midstream, a Zionist magazine, for 24 years, serving from 1975–1988 and 1990-2001.
Marriage and family
Carmichael was married twice: first to the journalist Mary Carr Thomas, then to sculptor Elizabeth de Cuevas in 1960.[3] He had three children.
His granddaughter is the filmmaker Emily Carmichael.
Death
Carmichael died January 27, 2006, in Manhattan.
- An Illustrated History of Russia (Reynal, 1960)[4]
- The Eichmann Case: Reactions in West Germany (Marstin Press, 1961)
- Chaim Weizmann: A Biography by Several Hands with Meyer Wolfe Weisgal and David Ben-Gurion (1962)
- The Death of Jesus (Macmillan, 1963)[5]
- A Short History of the Russian Revolution (Nelson, 1964)
- The Shaping of the Arabs: A Study in Ethnic Identity[6] (Macmillan, 1967)
- Karl Marx: The Passionate Logician (Scribner, 1967)
- Open Letter to Moses and Mohammed (J.H. Heineman, 1968)
- A Cultural History of Russia (Weybright and Talley, 1968)
- Trotsky: an Appreciation of His Life (St. Martin's Press, 1975)
- Stalin's Masterpiece (St. Martin's Press, 1976)
- Arabs Today (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977)
- The Birth of Christianity: Reality and Myth (Hippocrene Books, 1989)
- A History of Russia (Hippocrene Books, 1990)
- The Satanizing of the Jews: Origin and Development of Mystical Anti-Semitism (Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1992)
- The Unriddling of Christian Origins: A Secular Account (Prometheus Books, 1995)
Translations
- Carl Brockelmann, History of the Islamic Peoples (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939)
- N. N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution: A Personal Record (Oxford, 1955)[7]
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (Bantam, 1960)
- Dan Theodore, The Origins of Bolshevism (Secker & Warburg, 1964)
- Gisela Elsner, The Giant Dwarfs (Grove Press, 1965)[8]
- Paul Marc Henry, Africa Aeterna: The Pictorial Chronicle of a Continent (Sedo S.A., 1965)
- Jean Lacouture, Vietnam: Between Two Truces, trans. w. Kellen Konrad (Vintage Books/Random House, 1966)
- Willy Brandt, A Peace Policy for Europe (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968)
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