Curt Leviant (born 1932, Vienna[1]) is a retired Jewish Studies professor, as well as a novelist and translator.
[1] He took a BA from CUNY (Brooklyn), followed in 1957 by an MA from Columbia,[3] with a thesis on Lamed Shapiro.
[4] From 1960, he taught Hebraic studies at Rutgers, taking a PhD there in 1966 with a doctoral thesis that was a translation with commentary, published in 1969 as King Artur: A Hebrew Authurian Romance of 1279.
[5][6] [7] He married Erika Leah Pfeifer, they had three daughters, Dalya, Dvora, Shulamit.
According to Lewis Fried, "his fiction is nuanced, surprising, and often arabesque, dealing with the demands of the present and the claims of the past.