Carl Hoffman grew up in Boston and was educated in New York and Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and has lived among headhunting groups in Borneo and a remote hill tribe in the Philippines. He has worked as a university lecturer in the United States, a research anthropologist in Indonesia, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines; followed by a series of odd jobs with the U.S. State Department Refugee Programs, the Philippine Department of Education, and the Japanese Embassy in Manila.
Carl Hoffman has lived in Israel since 1997 with his wife and two children. Semi-employed as a freelance writer, his articles appear more or less regularly in the Jerusalem Post and ESRA Magazine, and sporadically elsewhere. He is amazed and deeply grateful to have recently won a “First Place” award for “Excellence in Feature Writing” from the American Jewish Press Association for his article, “19 Hours and 20 Minutes in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station,” published in the U.S. by Moment Magazine.
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A highly recommended historical novel by Martin Fletcher
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of the history of the establishment of Israel and the factual events that affected its development with an added love interest that makes for compelling reading.
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Tripping out of Tel Aviv offers a description of 30
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one-day excursions to places in central Israel accessible by public transportation. These range from nature reserves to historical sites, and the Old City of Akko. Each chapter contains a description of the site, how get there, what to do there, and how to get home.
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Jewish gangsters were a well known part of the American
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criminal scene in the first half of the twentieth century. Benny Fein was one of these New York mobsters. The terrible fire in March 1911 in a garment factory that killed over 100 young women caused him to rethink his life style – he became a fighter for better conditions for the workers.
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Carl Hoffman has many elements. Facts about Israel, its politics, the gap between rich and poor, terrorism, and how materialistic we have become. This is all woven into a novel of contemporary Israel.
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This book, which was inspired by an exhibition of ceramic
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train sculptures in the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, tells the story of some 10,000 children who were saved by the kindertransport, organized by prominent British Jews. "An impressive and sorely-needed documentary" writes reviewer Carl Hoffman.
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"Those who enjoyed her earlier works (Rosebush Murders,
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Murder in the Choir) will not be disappointed in this one", writes Carl Hoffman. The book, about an international drug ring, is "well-researched and written almost academically."
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The true tale of a young boy’s desperate fight for
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survival in wartime. He is a survivor of the Holocaust which he graphically describes from his personal battle of ingenuity to survive. It is an engrossing and well written book.
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The author spent many years in New York, before taking
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a 6-month tour across the United States, from big cities to small mid-western and southern towns. The author's conclusion: America is neither "the land of the free" nor "the home of the brave". Carl Hoffman at first "did not like this book", but "it began to grow" on him and in the end he highly recommends it.
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A personal and important Holocaust narrative. A well
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written account of multi faceted life experiences right up to today.
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Carl Hoffman reviews Martin Fletcher's new novel "Jacob's
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Oath". He finds Fletcher’s characters, however much they are intended to represent larger issues, are just too small to convey the significance of the events of those years.
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Moshe Arens clarifies the unknown story of the two
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factions fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto with researched detail and explanation – an important book of the Holocaust for students and readers.
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This book, by Shlomo Liberman, is at once "a detective
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story, a deeply personal narrative of self-discovery, and some well-researched histories", writes reviewer Carl Hoffman. "Compelling, well-researched" he sums up.
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This book describes in a microcosm what Jewish life
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was like in a Lithuanian shtetl of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, and after as it follows the Zilber family and their dispersion through the world.
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In this debut book of short stories, Rosenfeld presents
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us with characters dealing with the broad issues of looking for love—often in all the wrong places – exploring one’s identity, sexuality, and capacity for love and assessing one’s level and depth of Jewishness.
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Arne Rabuchin tells the story of how he was saved during
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the Holocaust by members of the Danish Underground. Denmark was a rare country which protected and saved its Jews.
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