Hillel Halkin
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Hillel Halkin is author of seveeral books, and a prominent translator of Jewish literature. In 1987 he produced what has come to be the definitive translation of Sholem Aleichem's Yiddish masterpiece "Tevye the Dairyman", which was the basis for the hit Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
He is the author of several books, including Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel. [1]