Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel is a book by Hillel Halkin.
Hillel Halkin is an English-language essayist, translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist. He was born in New York, "two months before the outbreak of World War II," 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, an experience that formed the basis of his first book, the New York Times-bestselling Letters to an American Jewish Friend. A prominent translator of Hebrew and Yiddish literature into English, he produced what has come to be considered the definitive translation of Sholem Aleichem's masterpiece Tevye the Dairyman, and has also translated the major Hebrew and Israeli novelists — Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev. Halkin’s second book, published 25 years after his first, was Across the Sabbath River, a work of travel literature in which he goes in search of the truth behind the mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes.more
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