Eylon Levy

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Eylon Aslan-Levy is a British-Israeli writer, translator and news anchor who has worked for i24News, an Israeli news company, and IBA News.[1] Levy's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.[2][3][4][5][6]

Levy received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2013 from the University of Oxford, where he attended Brasenose College.[7][8] He received his master's degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he wrote his thesis on the issue of Jewish refugees from the Arab world in Israeli foreign policy.[9] Whilst at Oxford, Levy participated in a debate with George Galloway in which Galloway walked out after learning that Levy was an Israeli citizen.[10][11][12] He made aliyah and served in the COGAT unit of the Israel Defense Forces.[13]

As a Hebrew-to-English translator, Levy has translated several influential works of Hebrew non-fiction including:

  • Catch-67 by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018)[14]
  • #IsraeliJudaism by Shmuel Rosner and Camil Fuchs (Jerusalem: JPPI, 2019)[15]
  • The War of Return by Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2020)[16]
  • Shimon Peres: An Insider's Account by Avi Gil (London: I.B. Tauris, 2020)[17]
  • The Story of Secular Jews by Amnon Rubinstein (Tel Aviv: Kotarim, 2021)[18]
  • The Wondering Jew by Micah Goodman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)[19]
  • From Africa to Zion by Danny Adeno Abebe (Tel Aviv: Yediot Books, 2021)[20]
  • The Israeli Century by Yossi Shain (New York: Wicked Son, 2021)[21]
  • The Fifth Fiasco by David Passig (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2021)[22]

Levy was the co-creator of the musical comedy A Theory of Justice: The Musical, which premiered in Oxford in 2013 and was revived for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was nominated for four awards.[23]

References[]

  1. ^ "On Jewish anti-Zionism". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  2. ^ "Grapevine: Taking the Jew(s) out of Britain". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  3. ^ "Building a state in the shadow of the Holocaust". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  4. ^ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  5. ^ "Obsessive Gaza coverage is fanning antisemitism | Eylon Aslan-Levy". the Guardian. 2014-08-07. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  6. ^ "Perspective | Israel won the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Any plan has to reflect that". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  7. ^ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". OxPol. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  8. ^ "Notable Alumni - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  9. ^ "Eylon Aslan-Levy". aishcom. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  10. ^ "Galloway walks out of debate with Oxford Israeli student". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  11. ^ "Oxford in uproar over union motion to boycott Israel". the Guardian. 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  12. ^ "George Galloway refuses to debate with Israeli student at Oxford". the Guardian. 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  13. ^ "Farewell, IDF; it's been an honor". blogs.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
  14. ^ Goodman, Micah (2019-10-08). Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War. Translated by Levy, Eylon.
  15. ^ Rosner, Shmuel; Fuchs, Camil (2019-08-29). #IsraeliJudaism: Portrait of a Cultural Revolution.
  16. ^ Schwartz, Adi; Wilf, Einat (2020-04-28). The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace.
  17. ^ Gil, Avi (2020-11-12). Shimon Peres: An Insider’s Account of the Man and the Struggle for a New Middle East.
  18. ^ Rubinstein, Amnon. THE STORY OF THE SECULAR JEWS.
  19. ^ Goodman, Micah (2020-11-10). The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity. Translated by Levy, Eylon.
  20. ^ Abebe, Danny Adeno (2021-04-20). From Africa To Zion.
  21. ^ Shain, Yossi (2021-11-02). The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed History and Reinvented Judaism.
  22. ^ "The Fifth Fiasco, or How to Escape the Traps of Jewish History in the Twenty-First Century - Cambridge Scholars Publishing". www.cambridgescholars.com. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  23. ^ "Nominees for WhatsOnStage supported MTN Awards announced in Edinburgh | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 2021-07-01.

External links[]

Eylon Levy on Twitter

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