Sherwin Burickson (1934–2004) psychologist, writer, and student of the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff, was the first Jewish editor of the New Catholic Encyclopedia, and the author of A Concise Dictionary of Contemporary History, published in 1959. The dictionary served during the interwar period as a guidebook for the CIA around the world.
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He survived two episodes of acute myelocytic leukemia. He finally died of colon cancer. He was survived by his wife Sue (a painter) and two children, Abraham Burickson and Lily.