Atar Hadari’s Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of H. N. Bialik (Syracuse University Press) was a finalist for the American Literary Translators’ Association Award and his Pen Translates award winning Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems of Hanoch Levin appeared from Arc Publications. He received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes and a PhD in Theology from Liverpool Hope University for his study on Jewish commentators in William Tyndale’s translation of Deuteronomy and its revisions into the King James Bible.