The son of Moise (Maurício) Sirotsky from Bessarabia. Cousin of Mauricio Sirotsky, brother of Sani Sirotsky. He settled in Tel Aviv in the 1990s, where he conti- nued working until the end of his life. Nahum Sirotsky began his career in 1941 in the magazine Diretrizes, by Samuel Wainer, his uncle. Sirotsky worked in the continuum function. The magazine, created by Wainer in 1938, would last until 1944. Also in 1941, Sirotsky was already collaborating with texts that would be published in Dom Casmurro, a literary magazine by Brício de Abreu launched in 1937 and which would last until 1946. In Dom Casmurro, Sirotsky wrote alongside names like Joel Silveira, Murilo Mendes, Oswald de Andrade, Rachel de Queiroz, José Lins do Rego, Cecília Meireles, Jorge Amado, Graciliano Ramos, among many others. Sirotsky was the first Brazilian correspondent at the United Nations, shortly after the organization's creation in 1945. The journalist was also the creator ofthe in- fluential magazine Senhor, in the 1950s. In addition to his extensive and varied jour- nalistic career, Sirotsky had diplomatic activities, in the Brazilian embassies in Tel Aviv and Washington, and in business. Nahum Sirotsky's journalistic career began in fact in the mainstream press in 1943, when he took up the position of reporter for Geral at the Rio newspaper O Globo. Since then, with some interruptions to work at Itamaraty and to create his consulting company, in the 1980s.