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Biography of Dan Jacobson
Name: Dan Jacobson
Birth Date: March 7, 1929
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality: South African
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, teacher
Dan Jacobson
Author Dan Jacobson (born 1929) used his experiences as a child growing up in South Africa to mold his writings about human nature.Dan Jacobson was born March 7, 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his parents' families had come to avoid the persecution of Jews in their European homelands. His father, Hymann Michael Jacobson, was born in Iluxt, Latvia, in 1885. His mother, Liebe (Melamed) Jacobson, was born in Kelme, Lithuania, in 1896. Jacobson had two older brothers, Israel Joshua and Hirsch Jacob, and a younger sister, Aviva. His mother's family immigrated to South Africa in 1919, after the death of his grandfather. His grandfather, Heshel Melamed, was a rabbi, and refused to leave Lithuania after traveling to the United States and finding that many Jews were not following their religion. Jacobson later wrote about his travels back to Lithuania to find out more information about his grandfather.Learned about PrejudiceWhen Dan was four, the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…moving story of his travels to Lithuania to learn more about the life of his grandfather. He started with his grandfather's identity document, spectacles, an address book, an old photograph, and the memories of relatives. Sadly, he found no trace of his grandfather, and, indeed, not even the cemetery he was buried in remained. He did find that in 1941, within six weeks' time, the Nazis essentially wiped out the Lithuanian Jewish community, killing 210,000.Although retired from the University of London, Jacobson continues to write. A Mouthful of Glass was published in 2000. Further Reading The International Who's Who, Europa Publications Limited, 2001. Jacobson, Dan, Time and Again: Autobiography, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. Commentary, November 2000. Daily Mail and Guardian, July 20, 1998. Judaism, Winter 2001. Research in African Literatures, Winter 1994.Washington Post, December 26, 1993."Dan Jacobson," Gale Literary Databases, http://www.galenet.com (January 21, 2002). "Dan Jacobson," Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu (January 21, 2002).
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