P. David Hornik (born 1954) is a writer, translator, commentator, and copyeditor living in Be'er Sheva, Israel.[1][2]
Hornik was born in New York City and grew up not far from Albany, New York.[3] In 1984 he moved to Israel and has lived in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba.[4]
Literary career
Up to 2003 Hornik contributed commentary to the Jerusalem Post and to American Jewish magazines such as Moment, Midstream, and others.[citation needed] Hornik was also a frequent book reviewer for the Jerusalem Post.
He is the author of the essay collection Choosing Life in Israel (2013),[3][6] the novel You Don't Know What Love Is (2018), the short-story collection Help Me, Rhonda and Other Stories (2019), the novel Beside the Still Waters (2019), the novel And Both Shall Row (2020), and the memoir Israel--A Place to Call Home: A Real-Life Story of Aliyah (2026). He also writes the newsletter Israel on My Mind with P. David Hornik.
Hornik's fiction deals with human interaction, and with the effects of time, memory, and geography on characters' understanding of themselves and of others. His memoir likewise explores those (and other) themes in the context of his own emigration.