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Matti Friedman
Matti Friedman
2018 Autumn Luncheon
United Nations Watch
Matti Friedman is a Canadian-born journalist and author who made Aliyah to Israel in 1995. A reporter for The Times of Israel and regular contributor to Tablet Magazine, Matti previously worked as a correspondent for the Associated Press, where he specialized in religion and archaeology.
Over his career, Matti’s reporting has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, Morocco, Moscow, and the Caucasus, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Two essays Matti wrote about bias media coverage of Israel after the 2014 Gaza war, for Tablet and The Atlantic, triggered intense discussion and have been shared on Facebook more than 130,000 times.
Matti Friedman’s latest book, Pumpkinflowers, was published in May 2016, and recounts his own life-changing experience as an Israeli soldier responsible for holding a remote outpost on a hill in Lebanon called “Pumpkin.”
Matti Friedman’s first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize, the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, and other honors. It was published in Israel, Australia, Holland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia,
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Pumpkinflowers
A 2016 New York Times Notable Book
One of Amazon’s 10 Best Books of 2016
Chosen as one of the year’s best by Booklist, Mother Jones, Foreign Affairs, the National Post, and the Globe and Mail
Winner of the 2017 Vine Award and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize, the Hillary Westin Writer’s Trust Prize, and Israel’s Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military writing
“It was one hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for ‘casualties.’ Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers–the author among them–charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
“Part memoir, part reportage, part military history, this powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war. Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Vasily Grossman. It is an unflinching
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Book Review: Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story
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