David Hazony
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David Yair Hazony (born 1969) is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017,[1] and from 2017–2020 served as executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund. He currently is an independent editor with Wicked Son Books.
Biography
[edit]Hazony studied at Columbia University, received a B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University, and completed his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Literary and publishing career
[edit]Hazony has written for the New Republic,[2] CNN.com,[3] The Forward,[4] Commentary,[5] Moment,[6] The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Chronicle, the New York Sun, Jewish Ideas Daily,[7] and has appeared on CNN,[8] MSNBC,[9] and Fox News.[10]
He was a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, founded by his older brother Yoram Hazony, until 2007. In 2004–2007, he served as editor in chief of Azure, its quarterly.[11]
From 2013 to 2017, he served as founding editor of The Tower Magazine, an online publication about Israel and the Middle East published by the Washington, D.C.-based Israel Project.
Published works
[edit]Books:
- Editor of Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son, October 2023).
- Author of The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life (Scribner, September 2010), a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award.
- Edited Eliezer Berkovits, Essential Essays on Judaism (Shalem Press, 2002); Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History (Shalem Press, 2004); and (together with Michael B. Oren and Yoram Hazony, eds.), New Essays on Zionism (Shalem Press, 2007).
- Translated Emuna Elon's novel If You Awaken Love (Toby, 2007), a finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award.
- Translated Uri Bar-Joseph, "The Angel" (HarperCollins, 2016), winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
References
[edit]- ^ "Magazine". TheTower.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Virtually Normal", The New Republic, June 11, 2008]
- ^ "My Take: Are the Ten Commandments still relevant?". CNN.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "David Hazony". Forward.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ David Hazony's posts on Contentions Archived July 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, the weblog of Commentary Magazine.
- ^ ""Welcome to Fire-Extinguisher Judaism," Moment, May/June 2010". MomentMag.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Jewish Ideas Daily » Authors » David Hazony". JewishIdeasDaily. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Was Netanyahu's speech a success? - CNN Video". CNN.com. March 9, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Looking at the politics behind Netanyahu's speech". MSNBC.com. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Setback in Mid-East Peace Talks". Fox News. May 3, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation". www.Azure.org.il. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
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- 1969 births
- Living people
- American emigrants to Israel
- American male journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli editors
- Yeshiva University alumni
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Israeli journalists
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American Jews