Serge Liberman

Dr Serge Liberman OAM (1942–2017) was an author, editor, scholar, bibliographer and medical practitioner. For more than 40 years he was a leading light in Australian Jewish literary and multicultural spheres. He published six collections of short stories, and was an editor of the Melbourne Chronicle, associate editor of the multicultural journal Outrider, literary editor of the Australian Jewish News and Menorah, and vice-president of PEN Melbourne.

Serge Liberman reviews ‘No Snow in December’ by Maria Lewitt

May 1986, no. 80 • 01 May 1986

Maria Lewitt is, if anything, a writer in the realistic mode, and she might be among the last to see her own work – and characters – in either symbolic or allegorical terms, For, their fleshbone-and-blood individuality and tangibility aside, the major protagonists of her autobiographical novel No Snow in December – sequel to her earlier prize-winning Come Spring – could well be seen t ... (read more)

Self Portrait - Serge Liberman

September 1986, no. 84 • 18 November 2022

As the child of survivors of a war-battered, sorely depleted driftwood generation, I have acquired reasons in plenty to call myself lucky. Perhaps more, far more, than merely lucky. Born in Russia, the son of Polish, Jewish refugees, my life might have evolved in line with any number of scenarios, the final actual one being arguably among the least foreseeable. We may, for instance, my parents a ... (read more)