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.
Sherwin Burickson (born 1934, died 2004), a psychologist and writer who studied G. I. Gurdjieff’s ideas, was the first Jewish editor for the New Catholic Encyclopedia and wrote A Concise Dictionary of Contemporary History in 1959.