Adina Hoffman

"In Sacred Trash, MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and acclaimed essayist Adina Hoffman tell the story of the retrieval from an Egyptian geniza, or repository for worn-out texts, of the most vital cache of Jewish manuscripts ever discovered."

"Adina Hoffman's portrait of Taha Muhammad Ali brings to life character after character, each one viewed with the author’s singular humanity... I hope this landmark book will be widely, and carefully, read."W. S. Merwin author of The Shadow of Sirius "Reading Adina Hoffman's remarkable book, we are ... (more)consoled that, in the face of terrible brutalities and sufferings, the enduring power of poetry might restore in words--and celebrate--a measure of what has been lost in reality."Azar Nafisi author of Things I've Been Silent About: Memories Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Widows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, and on the World Service of the BBC. Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, she is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press that publishes the literature of the Levant. She lives in Jerusalem.