Hillel Halkin

Hillel Halkin is a critic, writer, and translator of both Hebrew and Yiddish. Born in America in 1939, Halkin studied English literature at Columbia University and emigrated to Israel in 1950. His 2010 biography of Yahuda Halevi won the National Jewish Book Prize.
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