{"id":8938,"date":"2019-03-29T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8938"},"modified":"2019-03-29T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T15:58:41","slug":"adina-hoffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/adina-hoffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Adina Hoffman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6374\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8938-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/adinahoffman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/adinahoffman.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/adinahoffman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8940\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.tif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8941 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.jpg?resize=336%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.jpg?w=336&amp;ssl=1 336w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Adina-Hoffman-author-photo.jpg?resize=251%2C300&amp;ssl=1 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/>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\u00a0<em>House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood<\/em>\u00a0(Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and\u00a0<em>My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet\u2019s Life in the Palestinian Century<\/em>\u00a0(Yale University Press).\u00a0A\u00a0biography\u00a0of Taha Muhammad Ali,\u00a0<em>My Happiness\u00a0<\/em>was named one of the best twenty books of 2009 by the\u00a0<em>Barnes &amp; Noble Review\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0<\/em>won the UK\u2019s 2010\u00a0<em>Jewish Quarterly-<\/em>Wingate Prize.<\/p>\n<p>She is also the author, with Peter Cole, of<em>\u00a0Sacred\u00a0Trash:\u00a0The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza<\/em>\u00a0(Schocken \/ Nextbook), which was awarded the American Library Association\u2019s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year. In 2016, Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux published her\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374536787\">Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>which the\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0called \u201cbrave and often beautiful\u201d and\u00a0<em>Haaretz<\/em>\u00a0described as \u201ca passionate, lyrical defense of a Jerusalem that could still be.\u201d Her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300180428\/ben-hecht\"><em>Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8943\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=640%2C948&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=691%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 691w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=768%2C1138&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=696%2C1031&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=1068%2C1582&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?resize=283%2C420&amp;ssl=1 283w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?w=1721&amp;ssl=1 1721w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Hecht-cover.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8942\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover.jpg?resize=646%2C966&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover.jpg?w=355&amp;ssl=1 355w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover.jpg?resize=201%2C300&amp;ssl=1 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tillwehavebuilt_cover.jpg?resize=281%2C420&amp;ssl=1 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/adinahoffman.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list 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. 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