Haim Watzman

Haim Watzman
Born	1956 Cleveland, Ohio
Status	Married
Ethnicity	Jewish- U.S. / Israel
Education	B.A. from Duke University
Occupation	Freelance translator, author, journalist, blogger
Notable credit(s)	blogger at South Jerusalem; contributes to The Jerusalem Report
Spouse(s)	Ilana Watzman
Children	Four children

Haim Watzman (b. 1956, Cleveland, Ohio), is an American-born, Jerusalem-based writer, journalist, and translator.

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.

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).

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, and One Palestine Complete, 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 is now 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.

Bibliography

• 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

Books translated

• Tamar El Or, Reserved Seats: Religion, Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Israel. Wayne State University Press (in process)
• 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

External links

• Official website, includes links to his articles published in the mainstream and Jewish press
• South Jerusalem blog, co-authored with Gershom Gorenberg