His Neshiḳah lifne ha-maṿet, 1961 title page (אירה לווין = Airah Leṿin) title page verso (Ira Levin [in rom.])
New York times WWW site, Nov. 15, 2007 (in obituary published Nov. 14: Ira Levin; b. Ira Marvin Levin, Aug. 27, 1929, Manhattan; d. there Monday [Nov. 12, 2007], aged 78; mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps, and who did so repeatedly, with best-selling novels like Rosemary's baby, The Stepford wives, and The boys from Brazil)