Robert Michael was trained in survival: in tenement childhood with absentee parents; in U.S. Army, serving in Army Chief of Staff in Pentagon and in combat outfit in Bitburg, Germany, C Battery, 4th Missile Battalion, 6th Artillery Regiment, 7th Army; as editor in New York City publishing; in tai chi and karate; as university professor of Holocaust; in fiction under Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Margot Livesey, Maria Flook, Michael Klein at Fine Arts Workshop in Provincetown. He is an Emeritus Professor of European History at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and has completed a novel, JEWDYSSEOS, and published poetry. He has taught at Central European University in Prague, University of Vienna, University of Venice, InterAmerican University (Puerto Rico), Middle Tennessee State University, University of South Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Ringling College of Art and Design. He is the author of The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Dictionary of Antisemitism (Scarecrow Press, 2007); Holy Hatred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) [Nominated for National Jewish Book Award]; several other books and more than 50 articles on the History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Boston University, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Philosophy at Columbia University, and an NDEA Fellow. He has lived in Boston, New York City, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Venice (Italy), Sarasota, and Murfreesboro, TN. He follows the advice of Socrates and Captain McNelly of the Texas Rangers--a brave man keeps on keeping on
Jewdysseos's Genres: literary fiction, novels, short stories, poetry
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