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Haim Watzman (born 1956, Cleveland, Ohio), is an American-born, Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator. Biography Watzman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. After receiving a B.A. from Duke University, Watzman made aliyah 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. Literary career 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 infantry unit in the Israel Defense Forces 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 English translations of recent works by Hebrew-language authors. His translations include Tom Segev’s The Seventh Million, Elvis in Jerusalem, One Palestine Complete, and "A State at any Cost", as well as David Grossman’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, and was Israel correspondent for the British science journal Nature. His opinion pieces have appeared on the pages of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Forward. 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. In 2017 a collection of his "Necessary Stories" was published. Published works Company C: an American's Life as a Citizen-soldier in Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2005) ISBN 0-374-22633-4 A Crack in the Earth: A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2007) ISBN 978-0-374-13058-9 Necessary Stories. West 26th Street Press (2017) ISBN 978-1-630-64053-8 Books translated Tom Segev, A State at Any Cost. The Life of David Ben-Gurion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019 Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Israel-Arab Conflict, Brandeis University Press, 2015 Itamar Radai, Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948. Routledge Studies in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2015 Tuvia Friling, A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2014 Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe. Wayne State University Press, 2014 Shlomo Avineri, Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013 Anat Helman, Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2012 Tamar El Or, Reserved Seats: Religion, Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Israel. Wayne State University Press, 2012 Orit Rozin, The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2011 Boaz Neumann, Land and Desire in Early Zionism. The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies, Brandeis, 2011 Gilad Margalit, 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, 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. 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, 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, 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 Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2015 References External links Official website, includes links to his articles published in the mainstream and Jewish press South Jerusalem blog, co-authored with Gershom Gorenberg. Discover the Tom Segev Haim Watzman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tom Segev Haim Watzman books.
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Man In The Water
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Holy Bible
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Dracula
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Coffee Girl
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Masters of Restraint
Ines JohnsonMy new boss is good at giving orders. But his latest demand is NSFW. Especially when his two business partners want in on our deal. My new boss My boss’s boss Their investor &#...
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Good Guy
Kate MeaderHe's a Special Forces veteran making his pro hockey debut. She's a dogged sports reporter determined to get a scoop. She's also his best friend's widow . . . Fa...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. It’s Christmas Eve in Victorian England. While some families don’t know where their next meal will come from, Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his large hom...
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Whiskey Girl
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Caught Up with the Captain
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Meditations
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Salvation
Meghan O'FlynnIf you like mouthy detectives, serial killers, and suspenseful mysteries that don't quit, this chilling and actionpacked hardboiled detective series has you covered! Try this ...
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Bewitching a Highlander
Roma CordonDefying all for the love of a bewitching lass. Breena MacRae, a healer from Skye with a touch of witchery in her blood, embarks on a dangerous search for her missing father. She ar...
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Wuthering Heights
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Pride and Prejudice
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Just Me
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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The Honeymoon Homicide
J. R. Mathis & Susan MathisEnjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...
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Dark Psychology and Manipulation
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Always Yours
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The Great Gatsby
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Alpha
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Rogue Alpha
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Silenced Girls
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The Target
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The Three Little Pigs
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Awaken Me
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Assisting the Bosshole
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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How to Choose a Guy in 10 Days
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Death at Hazel House
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The Icing on the Cake
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
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The Next Girl
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Think and Grow Rich
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A Bookshop to Die For
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Get Lucky
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Teach Me
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Tempting the King
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Pretty Little Lies
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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All Fired Up
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Saltwater Cove
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The Odyssey
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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Finding Cinderella
Colleen Hoover#1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...
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Inception of Gold
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A Green Kind of Witch
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You Are Kind
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Never Enough
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The Scarlet Letter
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