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Ethel Portnoy

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Ethel Portnoy (March 8, 1927 - May 25, 2004) was a Dutch Jewish writer. She wrote mainly essays, columns, short stories and several novels.

Biography

Ethel Portnoy was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Bronx in New York as the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She studied French literature in the United States, then departed in 1950 to Europe. She also studied cultural anthropology and archeology in Paris with Claude Levi-Strauss. In 1951, she married Rudy Kousbroek, and raised two children.

Portnoy debuted in 1971 at the age of 44 with the book Steen and leg. She wrote the book in the English, but considered herself a Dutch writer. Her books were translated by her ex-husband, their daughter and by Hepzibah Kousbroek Tinke Davids.

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