Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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), is an American-born,
Jerusalem
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-based writer, journalist, and translator.
Watzman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Silver Spring,
Maryland
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. After receiving a B.A. from
Duke University
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, Watzman made
aliyah
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to Israel, where he has lived since 1978 and worked as a freelance translator and journalist. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Ilana, and four children.
Watzman is the author of ''Company C: An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005), a memoir centered on his service in a
reserve
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infantry
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unit in the
Israel Defense Forces
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and ''A Crack in the Earth: A Journey Up Israel’s Rift Valley'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007), as well as ''Necessary Stories'' (West 26th Street Press 2017).
Watzman is known for his
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translations of recent works by
Hebrew-language
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authors. His translations include
Tom Segev
Tom Segev ( he, תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.
Biography
Segev was born in Jeru ...
’s ''The Seventh Million'', ''Elvis in Jerusalem'', ''One Palestine Complete'', and "A State at any Cost", as well as
David Grossman
David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Biography
David Grossman was born i ...
’s ''The Yellow Wind'', ''Sleeping on a Wire'', and ''Death as a Way of Life''.
He served for 25 years as Israel correspondent for ''
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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'', and was Israel correspondent for the British science journal
Nature
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. His opinion pieces have appeared on the pages of ''
The New York Times
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'', ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', and ''
The Forward
''The Forward'' ( yi, פֿאָרווערטס, Forverts), formerly known as ''The Jewish Daily Forward'', is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience. Founded in 1897 as a Yiddish-language daily socialist newspaper, ' ...
''.
Watzman currently writes the monthly “Necessary Stories” column for The Jerusalem Report, and co-authors the widely read South Jerusalem blog, along with
Gershom Gorenberg
Gershom Gorenberg ( he, גרשום גורנברג) is an American-born Israeli journalist, and blogger,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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(2005)
* ''A Crack in the Earth: a journey up Israel's Rift Valley''. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2007)
* ''Necessary Stories''. West 26th Street Press (2017)
Books translated
*
Tom Segev
Tom Segev ( he, תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.
Biography
Segev was born in Jeru ...
, ''A State at Any Cost. The Life of David Ben-Gurion'',
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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, 2019
*
Hillel Cohen
Hillel Cohen-Bar (born in Jerusalem, 5 October 1961) is an Israeli scholar who studies and writes about Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel. He is an associated professor at the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew Unive ...
, ''Year Zero of the Israel-Arab Conflict'', Brandeis University Press, 2015
*
Itamar Radai
Itamar ( he, אִיתָמָר) is an Israeli settlement located in the West Bank's Samarian mountains, five kilometers southeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The settlement was built on land confiscated from the Palestinian villages of A ...
, ''Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948''. Routledge Studies in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2015
*
Tuvia Friling
Tuvia Friling (born 7 May 1953) is an Emeritus professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Previously he served as a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism and a lecturer at the Is ...
, ''A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival''. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2014
*
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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, ''On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe''. Wayne State University Press, 2014
*
Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew: שלמה אבינרי) (born 1933 in Bielsko, Poland) is an Israeli political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanitie ...
, ''Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State''. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013
*
Anat Helman
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, ''Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities''. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2012
*
Tamar El Or
Tamar El-Or (born in 1955) is an Israeli sociologist and author holding the Sarah Allen Shaine chair of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University.Orit Rozin
Orit Rozin is an Israeli historian. She is a professor of Jewish history at the University of Tel Aviv.
Donna Robinson Divine, writing in ''The New Rambler'' in 2016, described Rozin as "one of a new generation of scholars building their careers ...
, ''The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism''. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2011
*
Boaz Neumann
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, ''Land and Desire in Early Zionism''. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2011
*
Gilad Margalit
Gilad Margalit ( he, גלעד מרגלית, 1959 in Haifa, Israel – 23 July 2014) was an Israeli historian, writer, and professor in the Department of General History at the University of Haifa.
Margalit's academic research focused on various ...
, ''Guilt, Suffering, and Memory: Germany Remembers its Dead of World War II''. Indiana University Press, 2010
* Hillel Cohen, ''Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs''. University of California Press, 2010
* Menachem Klein, 'The Shift: Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict''. Columbia University Press, 2010
*
Yoram Bilu Yoram Bilu is an Israeli professor of anthropology and psychology emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is known for his work on folk religion (messianism, saint worship); the interaction between culture and mental health; the san ...
, ''The Saints’ Impresarios: Dreamers, Healers, and Holy Men in Israel’s Urban Periphery''. Academic Studies Press, 2009
* Menachem Klein, ''A Possible Peace''. Columbia University Press, 2007
* Hillel Cohen, ''
Army of Shadows, Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
''. University of California Press, 2007
* Yaakov Lozowick, ''Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil''. Continuum, 2003
* Menachem Klein, ''The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status''. University of Florida Press, 2003
*
David Grossman
David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Biography
David Grossman was born i ...
, ''Death as a Way of Life''. Farrar Straus, 2003
* Igal Sarna, ''The Man Who Fell into a Puddle''. Knopf, 2002
* Tom Segev, ''Elvis in Jerusalem''. Metropolitan, 2002
* Tamar El-Or, ''Next Pesach: Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Jewish Women''. Wayne State University Press, 2002
* Menachem Klein, ''Jerusalem: The Contested City''. Hurst/NYU Press, 2001
* Tom Segev, ''One Palestine Complete''. Metropolitan, 2000
*
Oz Almog
Oz Almog is an Israeli and Austrian artist, born on 15 April 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Biography
Oz Almog was born to a family of Russian/Ukrainian pioneers (Avrutzki) and Romanian/Russian immigrants (Abramovich). After studying classical paint ...
, ''The Sabra: A Portrait, California University Press''. 2000
* Tamar El-Or, ''Educated and Ignorant: On Ultra-Orthodox Women and Their World''. Lynne Reinner, 1993
* David Grossman, ''Sleeping on a Wire''. Farrar Straus, 1993
* Tom Segev, ''The Seventh Million''. Hill & Wang, 1993
* David Grossman, ''The Yellow Wind''. Farrar Straus, 1988