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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Haifa City Hardcore: Growing Up Punk in Israel and Beyond

Haifa City Hardcore: Growing Up Punk in Israel and Beyond

Ben Horin, Yotam

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Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1644285797
ISBN13: 9781644285794
Publisher: Rare Bird Books
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Haifa City Hardcore is a coming-of-age memoir forged in distortion, displacement, and defiance.

Growing up between Brooklyn and Haifa, Yotam Ben Horin never quite belonged. Too American for Israel, too Israeli for America, too sensitive for the world he inherited, he found his language not in classrooms or synagogues but in the raw urgency of punk and hardcore music. From his first exposure to Nirvana and the Pixies to the DIY underground of 1990s Haifa, music became both refuge and weapon-a way to survive grief, alienation, and the quiet violence of growing up amid cultural fracture.

Set against the backdrop of Israel's overlooked punk scene, Haifa City Hardcore chronicles the birth of bands, friendships, betrayals, and first shows played to half-empty rooms and hostile crowds. It is the story of a kid discovering straight edge, writing songs instead of explanations, and learning-slowly, painfully-how to stand onstage and exist without apology. As bands form and dissolve, and as the pull toward escape grows stronger, Ben Horin captures the fragile moment when adolescence hardens into identity.

At once intimate and kinetic, Haifa City Hardcore is not just a music memoir but a meditation on becoming: how art saves us, how scenes shape us, and how a voice-once found-refuses to stay silent.

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