Biography
Hillel Halkin was born in New York two months before the outbreak of World War II. He is the son of Abraham S. Halkin, a professor of Jewish literature, history and culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1970 he made aliyah to Israel, settling in Zichron Yaakov. He studied English Literature at Columbia University.
Halkin is married to Marcia and the father of two daughters.
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