Yossi Klein Halevi
Yossi Klein Halevi (born 1953 in USA) is an Israeli author and journalist .
biography
Halevi was born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn , New York to a Jewish family. His father was a Holocaust survivor born in Hungary . 1978 graduated Halevi a Bachelor in Jewish Studies at Brooklyn College and his Masters in Journalism at Northwestern University . Since 1982 he has lived in Israel with his wife Sarah (née Lynn Rintoul) .
Journalistic and literary career
Halevi worked as a writer on the biweekly magazine The Jerusalem Report from its inception until 2002. He wrote columns for The Jerusalem Post and was a regular contributor to Israeli topics in the comment section of the Los Angeles Times , occasionally writing for the New York Times and Washington Post . His first book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist , was published in 1995, in which he describes his dispute with Rabbi Meir Kahane .
In 2001 he published the book At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, in which he reflected on his spiritual career as a religious Jew in the world of Christianity and Islam in Israel. Halevi took part in meditations and prayers in various monasteries to get to know their life and language.
Halevi was then a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute , a study center in Jerusalem, and a correspondent for The New Republic . He is a lecturer at US and Canadian institutes, mainly dealing with issues of Israeli politics and culture. Since 2013 he has been teaching at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.
Halevi's book Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation was published by HarperCollins in October 2013 .
Political work
Halevi was active in reconciliation research in the Middle East and is chairman of the Open House, an Arab-Jewish study project in Ramle . He was the founder and member of the former Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum, in which Palestinian and Jewish journalists collaborate and conduct research.
Movie
In 1985 the documentary Kaddish , produced by Steve Brand, was released, in which the relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor, is reflected on film. The Village Voice newspaper named this film the best of the year.
Publications
- Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist , New York-Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1995. ISBN 978-0-316-49860-9
- At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land . Morrow, New York 2001.; HarperCollins, 2002,ISBN 978-0-06-050582-0
- At the entrance to the Garden of Eden: Searching for Hope with Religions in the Holy Land , ISBN 978-3-8306-7371-2 , EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien, 2009.
- בפתח גן העדן , ISBN 965-07-1539-8 , Shalom Hartman Institute, Keter, Jerusalem, Israel, 2007.
- Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation , HarperCollins, 2013
Web links
- About Halevi
- Yossi Klein Halevi, The pattern of Palestinian rejectionism , Jewish World Review, 12/7/2004
- Yossi Klein Halevi, Kabbalah goes Hollywood , Jewish World Review, 30/4/2004 * David Hazony: Of Utopian Dreamers and the Israeli Spirit . The Tower Magazine . 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ No choice but to fight, New York Times
- ↑ Israel, Alone Again? New York Times
- ^ A b Yossi Klein Halevi: I am looking for the vanished Israel haaretz.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halevi, Yossi Klein |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |