Hillel Halkin (Hebrew: הלל הלקין; born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist who has lived in Israel since 1970.
Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outbreak of World War II.
He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A.
[3] Halkin's second book, Across the Sabbath River (2002), is a work of travel literature in which he goes in search of the truth behind the mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes.
He became increasingly interested in the Bnei Menashe—who began to immigrate to Israel from India in the late 20th century—and helped to arrange DNA testing for the group in 2003 in Haifa.