Hillel Halkin Hillel Halkin is an American-born Israeli translator , biographer, literary critic , and novelist , who has lived in Israel since 1970.Biography Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outbreak of World War II . He was the son of Abraham S. Halkin, then a professor of Jewish literature , history and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America , and his wife Shulamit, a daughter of Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan . In 1970 he made aliyah to Israel, settling in Zikhron Ya'akov . He studied English Literature at Columbia University . Halkin is married to Marcia and is the father of two daughters.Literary career Halkin translates Hebrew and Yiddish literature into English . He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman , and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner , S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven , A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz , and Meir Shalev . Halkin won a National Jewish Book Award in 1978 for his first original book Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic . He expressed why American Jews should immigrate to Israel. Halkin's second book, Across the Sabbath River , is a work of travel literature in which he goes in search of the truth behind the mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes . He became increasingly interested in the Bnei Menashe , who began to immigrate to Israel from India in the late 20th century , and helped to arrange DNA testing in 2003 in Haifa . Since then he has written A Strange Death , a novel based on the local history of Zikhron Ya'akov, where he resides. His intellectual biography of Yehuda Halevi won a 2010 National Jewish Book Award . In 2012, Halkin published his first novel, Melisande! What Are Dreams? The critic D. G. Myers described it as a "unique and moving study of marriage, a love letter to conjugal love." In 2014, Halkin published a new biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky . Halkin writes frequently on Israel and Jewish culture and politics . His articles have been published in Commentary , The New Republic , The Jerusalem Post and other publications. He is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books . The American literary critic, Edward Alexander , is convinced that Halkin is the author of the Philologos column in The Forward . Mira Sucharov of Canadian Jewish News claimed that "Philologos" is Halkin's pseudonym .Published works Books Translations Geulah Cohen . Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943–1948 . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston . Yosef Haim Brenner. Breakdown and Bereavement . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press . Mordecai Ze'ev Feuerberg. Whither? and Other Stories . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society . Leah Goldberg . Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century . Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University . Shulamith Hareven. City of Many Days . Garden City, New York: Doubleday . Hanokh Bartov . Whose Little Boy Are You? Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society . Amos Oz. A Perfect Peace . San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . Sholem Aleichem . Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories . New York: Schocken Books. Tamar Bergman. The Boy from Over There . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Shulamith Hareven. The Miracle Hater . San Francisco: North Point Press . Meir Shalev. The Blue Mountain . New York: Harper Collins . A. B. Yehoshua. Mr. Mani . New York: Doubleday. Uri Orlev . Lydia, Queen of Palestine . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Uri Orlev. The Lady with the Hat . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Uri Orlev. The Man from the Other Side . New York: Puffin Books . Nava Semel . Flying Lessons . New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers . Shulamith Hareven. Thirst: The Desert Trilogy . San Francisco: Mercury House . Roman Frister . The Cap: The Price of a Life . New York: Grove Press . S. Y. Agnon. A Simple Story . Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press . Samuel HaNagid . Grand Things to Write a Poem On: A Verse Autobiography . Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House . Haim Sabato . Adjusting Sights . New Milford , Connecticut: Toby Press. Uri Orlev. Run, Boy, Run . Boston: Houghton Mifflin. A. B. Yehoshua. The Liberated Bride . Orlando, Florida: Harcourt . Haim Be'er . Feathers . Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press . A. B. Yehoshua. Five Seasons . Orlando: Harcourt. A. B. Yehoshua. A Woman in Jerusalem . Orlando, Florida: Harcourt. S. Y. Agnon. To This Day . New Milford, Connecticut: Toby Press. Uri Orlev. The Song of the Whales . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children .
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