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Howard Jacobson (born 24 August, 1942 in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich), is a British author who has written comic novels involving Jewish characters. He was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to England to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His later teaching assignments included, in the 1970s, …