{"id":7593,"date":"2019-03-29T14:58:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/adina-hoffman\/"},"modified":"2019-03-29T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:23:42","slug":"adina-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/adina-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Adina Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8940\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8941 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.jpg 336w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo-1.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Essayist and biographer <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiseditions.com\/adinahoffman\/\">Adina Hoffman<\/a> writes often of the Middle East, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place, its people, and their cultures.<\/p>\n<p>She is the author of&nbsp;<em>House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood<\/em>&nbsp;(Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and&nbsp;<em>My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet&rsquo;s Life in the Palestinian Century<\/em>&nbsp;(Yale University Press).&nbsp;A&nbsp;biography&nbsp;of Taha Muhammad Ali,&nbsp;<em>My Happiness&nbsp;<\/em>was named one of the best twenty books of 2009 by the&nbsp;<em>Barnes &amp; Noble Review&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;<\/em>won the UK&rsquo;s 2010&nbsp;<em>Jewish Quarterly-<\/em>Wingate Prize.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of<em>&nbsp;Sacred&nbsp;Trash:&nbsp;The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza<\/em>&nbsp;(Schocken \/ Nextbook), which was awarded the American Library Association&rsquo;s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year. In 2016, Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux published her&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374536787\">Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>which the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>&nbsp;called &ldquo;brave and often beautiful&rdquo; and&nbsp;<em>Haaretz<\/em>&nbsp;described as &ldquo;a passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.&rdquo; Her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300180428\/ben-hecht\"><em>Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;has just been published by Yale University Press.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, she was named one of the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell prize. She lives in Jerusalem and New Haven.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8943\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg 691w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-1.jpg 202w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-2.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-3.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-4.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-5.jpg 283w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover-6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8942\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover.jpg 355w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover-1.jpg 201w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover-2.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes often of the Middle East, approaching it from unusual angles and shedding light on overlooked dimensions of the place, its people, and their cultures. She is the author of&nbsp;House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood&nbsp;(Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and&nbsp;My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}