Ari Shavit

Ari Shavit
Born 1957 (age 57–58)
Rehovot, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation Writer, Journalist
Known for - Columnist at Haaretz
- Author of the award winning 2013 book My Promised Land

Ari Shavit (Hebrew: ארי שביט; born 1957) is an Israeli reporter and writer. He is a Senior Correspondent at the left-of-center Israeli newspaper Haaretz and the author of the 2013 New York Times Best Seller My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel.

Biography

Shavit was born in Rehovot, Israel, and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His father was a scientist and his mother was an artist. Some of his ancestors were early leading Zionists.[1]

Career

Shavit has been a columnist for Haaretz since 1995.[2] His work has also appeared in The New Yorker,[3] The New York Times,[4] and Politico.[5]

In 2013, Shavit released the historical nonfiction novel My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. It was a New York Times Best Seller[6] and received wide-spread acclaim. The New York Times listed My Promised Land in its "100 Notable Books of 2013",[7] The Economist named it as one of the best books of 2013,[8] it received the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History from the Jewish Book Council,[9] and it won the Natan Book Award.[10] In September 2014, Shavit traveled to Cleveland, Ohio to accept the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award[11] in nonfiction for "My Promised Land," and delivered a talk at the Cleveland City Club[12] about the necessity of American leadership in the Middle East.

My Promised Land has also received criticism, including by Norman Finkelstein.[13]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Shavit, Ari (2013-11-19). My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. Random House Publishing Group. p. xii. ISBN 9780812984644. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, p. xiii.
  3. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/21/131021fa_fact_shavit
  4. ↑ "The Old Peace Is Dead, but a New Peace Is Possible". The New York Times. March 12, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Is Israel Losing Its Soul?". Politico. March 20, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Best Sellers". The New York Times. December 8, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ "100 Notable Books of 2013". The New York Times. November 27, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Torrents of words". The Economist. December 7, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ "2013 National Jewish Book Awards Announced". Jewish Book Council. January 15, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  10. ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/.premium-1.527546
  11. ↑ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org
  12. ↑ https://www.cityclub.org/events/my-promised-land-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-israel
  13. ↑ Old Wine, Broken Bottle: Ari Shavit's Promised Land.
  14. ↑ Dwight Garner (November 19, 2013). "Son of Israel, Caught in the Middle". The New York Times. In the end, he plaintively says: "I wonder how long we can maintain our miraculous survival story. One more generation? Two? Three? Eventually the hand holding the sword must loosen its grip. Eventually the sword itself will rust. No nation can face the world surrounding it for over a hundred years with a jutting spear."
  15. ↑ Leon Wieseltier (November 21, 2013). "The State of Israel". The New York Times. It is one of the achievements of Ari Shavit's important and powerful book to recover the feeling of Israel's facticity and to revel in it, to restore the grandeur of the simple fact in full view of the complicated facts.

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