 Michael Horovitz, born in Frankfurt, was the youngest of 10 children who were brought to Britain from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families.Horovitz studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1954 to 1960.In 1959 he founded the periodical "New Departures" while still a student, publishing William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, and Stevie Smith.