Amram Ducovny

Birthday: 11 September 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Amram Duchovny (later: Ducovny) was born in 1927 in New York. His father, Moshe Duchovny, was a noted Yiddish writer and journalist, and his mother, Hannah Julia (Fiskoff), was an immigrant from Polan ...Show More

Amram Duchovny (later: Ducovny) was born in 1927 in New York. His father, Moshe Duchovny, was a noted Yiddish writer and journalist, and his mother, Hannah Julia (Fiskoff), was an immigrant from Poland. Moshe, who came to American in 1918 from what is now Berdychiv, Ukraine, wrote for the Morning Journal. Ducovny claimed to have dropped the ''h'' in his last name to escape the sort of mispronunciations he suffered at the hands of sergeants while serving in the Army.Married to Margaret Ducovny, the couple had three children; Daniel, David and Laurie. The marriage ended in divorce. His second wife was Varda Ducovny. The couple lived in Paris and raised Varda's son; Jonathan Sahula (now living in Boston).He graduated from New Utrecht High School and later received a B.A. from New York University. He worked in public relations, first for the American Jewish Committee in New York, and until his retirement for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. In 1977 he moved to Boston to become director of public affairs for Brandeis University, and from 1978 to 1982 he was the vice president for public affairs at the university.Ducovny wrote 10 nonfiction works, including "David Ben-Gurion: In His Words," "The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew" and "How to Shoot a Jewish Western" and a play, "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald," which had a brief run off Broadway in 1967 and later was adapted for television.At the age of 73, in 2000 he realized his dream of becoming a novelist and published a book "Coney". The novel drew from his boyhood experiences and packaged them into a dark, mature, detailed account of life as the son of Jewish immigrants in the pre-World War II era of Coney Island.Ducovny died from heart attack in Paris, on August 23, 2003, at the age of 75. Hide