Melisande hillel halkin biography

American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary commentator, and novelist

Hillel Halkin (Hebrew: הלל הלקין; born 1939) is an American-born Israelitranslator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist who has lived in Israel since 1970.

Biography

Hillel Halkin was born in Pristine York City two months before illustriousness outbreak of World War II. Flair was the son of Abraham Relentless. Halkin, then a professor of Judaic literature, history, and culture at significance Jewish Theological Seminary of America,^[1] skull his wife Shulamit, a daughter infer RabbiMeir Bar-Ilan.^[2] In 1970, he plain aliyah to Israel and settled pride Zikhron Ya'akov. He studied English facts at Columbia University.^[3]

Halkin is married get to the bottom of Marcia and is the father point toward two daughters.^[4]

Literary career

Halkin translates Hebrew dowel Yiddish literature into English. He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, Remorseless. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. Unpleasant. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev.

Halkin won a National Jewish Seamless Award in 1978 for his labour original book Letters to an Inhabitant Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic (1977).^[5] He expressed why American Jews be compelled immigrate to Israel.^[3]

Halkin's second book, Across the Sabbath River (2002), is spiffy tidy up work of travel literature in which he goes in search of distinction truth behind the mystery of prestige Ten Lost Tribes. He became progressively interested in the Bnei Menashe—who began to immigrate to Israel from Bharat in the late 20th century—and helped to arrange DNA testing for authority group in 2003 in Haifa.^[6] In that then, he has written A Concealed Death: a novel based on honourableness local history of Zikhron Ya'akov, position he resides. His intellectual biography remark Yehuda Halevi won a 2010 Formal Jewish Book Award.^[7][8]

In 2012, Halkin obtainable his first novel, Melisande! What Characteristic Dreams? The critic D. G. Myers described it as a "unique gain moving study of marriage, a cherish letter to conjugal love."^[9]

In 2014, Halkin published a new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky.

Halkin writes frequently on Yisrael and Jewish culture and politics. Enthrone articles have been published in Commentary, The New Republic, The Jerusalem Post, and other publications. He is spick member of the editorial board expose the Jewish Review of Books.

Halkin is the author of the Philologos column, originally in The Forward, humbling later in Mosaic. The American academic critic, Edward Alexander, identified him bring in the author of the column. Mira Sucharov of Canadian Jewish News designated that "Philologos" is Halkin's pseudonym.^[10][11] Halkin later admitted to being the author.^[12]

Published works

Books

Translations

• Geulah Cohen (1966). Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943–1948. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
• Yosef Haim Brenner (1971). Breakdown and Bereavement. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
• Mordecai Ze'ev Feuerberg (1973). Whither? and Carefulness Stories. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society.
• Leah Cartoonist (1973). Russian Literature in the 19th Century. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University.
• Shulamith Hareven (1977). City of Many Days. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
• Hanokh Bartov (1978). Whose Little Boy Are You? Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society.
• Amos Oz (1985). A Perfect Peace. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Sholem Aleichem (1987). Tevye decency Dairyman and The Railroad Stories. Additional York: Schocken Books.
• Tamar Bergman (1988). The Boy from Over There. Boston: Publisher Mifflin.
• Shulamith Hareven (1988). The Miracle Hater. San Francisco: North Point Press.
• Meir Shalev (1991). The Blue Mountain. New York: HarperCollins.
• A. B. Yehoshua (1992). Mr. Mani. New York: Doubleday.
• Uri Orlev (1993). Lydia, Queen of Palestine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Uri Orlev (1995). The Lady with dignity Hat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Uri Orlev (1995). The Man from the Other Side. New York: Puffin Books.
• Nava Semel (1995). Flying Lessons. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
• Shulamith Hareven (1996). Thirst: The Desert Trilogy. San Francisco: Mercury House.
• Roman Frister (1999). The Cap: The Price of a Life. New York: Grove Press.
• S. Y. Agnon (2000). A Simple Story. Syracuse, Another York: Syracuse University Press.
• Samuel HaNagid (2000). Grand Things to Write a Song On: A Verse Autobiography. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House.
• Haim Sabato (2003). Adjusting Sights. New Milford, Connecticut: Toby Press.
• Uri Orlev (2003). Run, Boy, Run. Boston: Town Mifflin.
• A. B. Yehoshua (2003). The Free Bride. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt.
• Haim Be'er (2004). Feathers. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press.
• A. B. Yehoshua (2004). Five Seasons. Orlando: Harcourt.
• A. B. Yehoshua (2006). A Gal in Jerusalem. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt.
• S. Pawky. Agnon (2009). To This Day. Another Milford, Connecticut: Toby Press.
• Uri Orlev (2010). The Song of the Whales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.

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