[Year of first publication] 1960 [Character(s)] Isaac Edward Leibowitz The Pilgrim (Benjamin Eleazar bar Yehoshua) [Work] A Canticle for Leibowitz [Creator] Walter M. Miller, Jr. [Country of publication] United States [Details] While he does not appear as a character in the story, the titular Leibowitz, a Jewish engineer, converted after a nuclear holocaust which devastated society and led to popular uprisings against technology which included the destruction of books. Within an isolated monastery, Leibowitz led the monks in their efforts to collect and preserve knowledge. The story of the novel initially follows Brother Francis Gerard who begins his journeys after an encounter with a nameless hermit, who is later identified as a Jew, and even later named as Benjamin Eleazar bar Yehoshua.[71] [Media] 
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