Itamar Ben Canaan

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Itamar Ben Canaan (in Hebrew: איתמר הנדלמן בן כנען, איתמר בן כנען) (full name: Itamar Handelman Ben Canaan, born May 30th 1976 in the city of Eilat, Israel) is a writer and journalist.

In 2004 was given a weekly column in the Time Out magazine of Tel Aviv. Canaan published two volumes of short fiction, two volumes of poetry and one controversial erotic novel with photos taken by his wife, the artist Olga Borozina. Canaan had also translated the poetry of Charles Bukowski into Hebrew and edited many translations of other American writings.^{[citation needed]}

Currently lives in Jaffa (Tel Aviv) with his wife and daughter.

In 2005 was a subject of a documentary film called the The Ashkenazim.[1]

[edit] External links

• "Erotic Novel from Israel" on Itamar Ben Canaan from the Czech website expats.cz.
• The Ashkenazim in the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival