# Adam Biro

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{{Short description|Hungarian-French publishing house founder}}
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'''Adam Biro''' is founder of the art book [publishing house](/source/publishing_house) Biro Éditeur in [Paris](/source/Paris) and the author of nine books.<ref>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=bio&bookkey=5186426{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Biro served as manager of Biro Éditeur until 2009, when the position passed to Stéphane Cohen.<ref>{{cite news | title = Modifications de Statuts 237201 Biro Editeur | work = Journal Officiel de la République Française | date = 5 June 2009 | page = G}}</ref> As of 2010, Biro continued to serve as an editorial advisor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biroediteur.com/contact.php?PHPSESSID=efa0c9133c31baea6a3088c212f2af91 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607120929/http://www.biroediteur.com/contact.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 June 2008 |title=Contact |publisher=Biro Éditeur |accessdate=27 October 2010 }}</ref> Biro was born in [Hungary](/source/Hungary), but left for [Paris](/source/Paris) at the age of fifteen.<ref>{{cite news
  | last = Crampton
  | first = Thomas
  | title = Face and places: The 'new' Europeans
  | newspaper = The New York Times
  | location = New York
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  | date = 6 October 2005
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/travel/05iht-trvision.html
  | accessdate = 12 October 2009}}</ref>

== List of works ==

*''Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press), 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-226-05217-5}})
*''One Must Also Be Hungarian'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-226-05212-0}})
*''Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-226-05214-4}})

== References ==

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==Book reviews==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071214091223/http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/14257/ Review], ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''
*[http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/you_dont_have_to_be_hungarian_but_it_helps_20070316/ Review], ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''

== External links ==
* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/052125.html An excerpt] from ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''
* [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/052141.html A story] from ''Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New''

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