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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carl Hoffman teaches an advanced course in reading
comprehension of academic writing for
students in the social sciences at Israel’s
Open University.

Sadly, Carl Hoffman passed away in
December 2019.

The author Carl Hoffman as drawn by Denis Denis at the Habonim 90 Anniversary
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Shifrin in February 2006 Celebration, October 2019

Carl Hoffman grew up in Boston and was
educated in New York and Philadelphia. He
holds a doctorate in anthropology from the
University of Pennsylvania and has lived
among headhunting groups in Borneo and a
remote hill tribe in the Philippines.

He has worked as a university lecturer in the
United States, a research anthropologist in
Indonesia, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in
the Philippines, followed by a series of odd
jobs with the U.S. State Department Refugee
Programs, the Philippine Department of
Education, and the Japanese Embassy in
Manila. Dr. Hoffman has lived in Israel since
1997 with his wife and two children.

Semi-employed as a freelance writer, his

articles appear more or less regularly in the
Jerusalem Post and ESRA Magazine, and With Frank Farbenblum
sporadically elsewhere. He is amazed and
deeply grateful to have recently won a “First
Place” award for “Excellence in Feature
Writing” from the American Jewish Press
Association for his article, “19 Hours and 20
Minutes in Tel Aviv’s Central Bus Station”,
published in the U.S. by Moment Magazine.

He is the author of two books: “Punan”
(1986), an anthropological study of a jungle
tribe in Borneo, and “Lovetaps” (2003), a
collection of short stories. Dr. Hoffman also

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