Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( he, אברהם גבריאל (בולי) יהושע; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. ''
The New York Times
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'' called him the "Israeli
Faulkner
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". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics.
Biography
Avraham Gabriel ("Boolie") Yehoshua was born to a third-generation Jerusalem family of
Sephardi
Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), ...
origin from
Salonika
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...
,
Greece
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. His father Yaakov Yehoshua, the son and grandson of
rabbis, was a scholar and author specializing in the
history of Jerusalem
During its long history, Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times, and destroyed twice.. According to Eric H. Cline's tally in Jerusalem Besieged. The oldest part of the city was settled in the ...
. His mother, Malka Rosilio, was born and raised in
Mogador
Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Morocco, Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi, Marakesh-Safi, on the ...
,
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
,
France
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, and
immigrated to Jerusalem with her parents in 1932. He grew up in Jerusalem's
Kerem Avraham
Kerem Avraham, in English Abraham's Vineyard, is a neighbourhood near Geula in central Jerusalem, founded in 1855. It is bounded by Malkhei Yisrael Street, Yechezkel Street, Tzefanya Street, and the Schneller Compound.
The 1855 mission house wa ...
neighborhood.
He attended
Gymnasia Rehavia
Rehavia Gymnasium or the Jerusalem Rehavia Gymnasium, by its Hebrew name Gymnasia Rehavia ( he, גמנסיה רחביה, Gimnazya Rehavya), is a high school in the Rehavia neighborhood in West Jerusalem.
History
The high school's initial name wa ...
municipal high school in Jerusalem.
As a youth, Yehoshua was active in the
Hebrew Scouts
The Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel ( he, תנועת הצופים העבריים בישראל, ''Tnuat HaTzofim HaIvriyim BeYisrael'') is an Israeli Jewish co-ed Scouting and Guiding association with about 80,000 members. The Hebrew Scouts Movem ...
. After completing his studies, Yehoshua drafted to the
Israeli army
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branc ...
, where he served as a
paratrooper from 1954 to 1957, and participated in the 1956
Sinai War
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...
. After studying literature and philosophy at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, he began teaching. He lived in Jerusalem's
Neve Sha'anan neighborhood.
From 1963 to 1967, Yehoshua lived and taught in Paris and served as the General Secretary of the
World Union of Jewish Students
The World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS ) (Hebrew: ההתאחדות העולמית של הסטודנטים היהודים; French: L’Union Mondiale des Etudiants Juifs; Spanish: Unión Mundial de Estudiantes Judíos; Russian: Всемирный ...
. From 1972, he taught Comparative and Hebrew Literature at the
University of Haifa
The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...
, where he held the rank of Full Professor. In 1975 he was a
writer-in-residence
Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...
at
St Cross College, Oxford
St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is an all-graduate college with gothic and traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It a ...
. He has also been a visiting professor at
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
(1977), the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
(1988, 1997, 2000); and
Princeton
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...
(1992).
Yehoshua was married to Rivka, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, until her death in 2016. He died of
esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach. Symptoms often include difficulty in swallowing and weight loss. Other symptoms may include pain when swallowing, a hoarse voice ...
, on June 14, 2022, in
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center ( he, המרכז הרפואי תל אביב ע"ש סוראסקי; commonly referred to as Ichilov Hospital) is the main hospital complex serving Tel Aviv, Israel and its metropolitan area and the second-largest ho ...
.
Literary career
From the end of his military service, Yehoshua began to publish fiction. His first book of stories, ''Mot Hazaken'' (''The Death of the Old Man''), was published in 1962. He became a prominent figure in the "new wave" generation of Israeli writers, who differed from their predecessors in focussing more closely on the individual, and on interpersonal concerns, rather than the psychology of a group. Yehoshua named
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...
,
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ...
, and
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of ...
as formative influences.
Harold Bloom wrote an article about Yehoshua's ''
A Late Divorce'' in ''
The New York Times
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'', mentioning the work again in his ''
The Western Canon
''The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages'' is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as ce ...
''.
Yehoshua is the author of twelve novels, three books of short stories, four plays, and four collections of essays, including ''Ahizat Moledet'' (''Homeland Lesson'', 2008), a book of reflections on identity and literature. His best received novel, ''Mr Mani'', is a multigenerational look at Jewish identity and Israel through five conversations that go backwards in time to cover over 200 years of Jewish life in Jerusalem and around the
Mediterranean basin
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.
It was adapted for television as a five-part multilingual series by director
Ram Loevy
Ram Loevy (Hebrew: רם לוי, born August 1, 1940) is an Israeli television director and screenwriter. He has written and directed and documentary films that challenge the status quo on such issues as class conflict, torture, the prison system ...
. As do many of his works, his eighth novel, ''Friendly Fire,'' explores the nature of dysfunctional family relationships
in a drama that moves back and forth between Israel and Tanzania.
His works have been translated and published in 28 countries; many have been adapted for film, television, theatre, and opera.
Views and opinions
Yehoshua was an Israeli Peace Movement activist. He set out his political views in essays and interviews, and attended the signing of the
Geneva Accord. Yehoshua was both a long-standing critic of the
Israeli occupation
Israeli-occupied territories are the lands that were captured and occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967. While the term is currently applied to the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights, it has also been used to refer to a ...
and also of Palestinian political culture.
He and other intellectuals mobilized on behalf of the dovish
New Movement
New Movement ( it, Nuovo Movimento) was a political party active in Sardinia founded in 1997 by the entrepreneur Nicola Grauso.
The party had in its program of transformation of Sardinia into the world leader in the Internet.
History
The New ...
before the 2009 elections in Israel.
According to ''
La Stampa
''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy.
History and profile
The paper was fou ...
'', before the
2008–2009 Israel-Gaza conflict he published an appeal to Gaza residents urging them to end the violence. He explained why the Israeli operation was necessary and why it needed to end: "Precisely because the Gazans are our neighbors, we need to be proportionate in this operation. We need to try to reach a cease-fire as quickly as possible. We will always be neighbors, so the less blood is shed, the better the future will be."
Yehoshua added that he would be happy for the border crossings to be opened completely and for Palestinians to work in Israel as part of a cease-fire.
Yehoshua was criticized by the
American Jewish community
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for his statement that a "full Jewish life could only be had in the Jewish state." He claimed that Jews elsewhere were only "playing with Judaism."
"
Diaspora
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Judaism is masturbation," Yehoshua told editors and reporters at ''
The Jerusalem Post
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''. In Israel, he said, it is "the real thing."
Awards and recognition
* In 1972, Yehoshua received the
Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.
*In 1983, he was awarded the
Brenner Prize.
* In 1986, he received the
Alterman Prize.
* In 1989, he was a co-recipient (jointly with
Avner Treinin
Avner Treinin ( he, אבנר טריינין, February 14, 1928 – October 7, 2011) was an Israeli poet and professor of physical chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Biography
Treinin was born in Tel Aviv on February 14, 1928. At ...
) of the
Bialik Prize for literature.
* In 1995, he was awarded the
Israel Prize
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History
The Israel Prize is awarded annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state cer ...
for Hebrew literature.
* He has also won the
National Jewish Book Award for ''Five seasons'' in 1990 and the
Koret Jewish Book Award in the U.S., as well as the
Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize
The Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host ''Jewish Quarterly'' and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate. The award recognises Jewish and non-Jewish writers r ...
in the United Kingdom.
* Yehoshua was shortlisted in 2005 for the first
Man Booker International Prize.
* In 2006, "A Woman in Jerusalem" was awarded the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
* In Italy, he received the
Grinzane Cavour
Grinzane Cavour is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo.
Grinzane Cavour borders the municipalities of Alba and Diano d'Alba.
Original ...
Award, the Flaiano Superprize, the
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was somet ...
Prize, and the
Viareggio Prize
The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese ...
for Lifetime Achievement. In 2003, his novel ''The Liberated Bride'' won both the Premio Napoli and the Lampedusa Literary Prize. ''Friendly Fire'' won the Premio Roma in 2008.
* He received honorary doctorates from
Hebrew Union College
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(1990),
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
(1998),
Torino University
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(1999),
Bar-Ilan University (2000), and
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students.
It was founded in 1810 wi ...
(2012).
* In November 2012, Yehoshua received the
Prix Médicis étranger
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for his novel חסד ספרדי (English: ''The Retrospective''; French: ''Rétrospective'').
* In 2017 he received the
Dan David Prize Award.
Quotes
*"
iaspora Jewschange
heir
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nationalities like jackets. Once they were Polish and Russian; now they are British and American. One day they could choose to be Chinese or Singaporean...For me, Avraham Yehoshua, there is no alternative... I cannot keep my identity outside Israel.
eingIsraeli is my skin, not my jacket.
*"I ask myself a question that must be asked: What brought the Germans and what is bringing the Palestinians to such a hatred of us? ... We have a tough history. We came here out of a Jewish experience, and the settlements are messing it up."
*"We are ''not'' bent on killing Palestinian children to avenge the killing of our children. All we are trying to do is get their leaders to stop this senseless and wicked aggression, and it is only because of the tragic and deliberate mingling between Hamas fighters and the civilian population that children, too, are unfortunately being killed. The fact is that since the disengagement, Hamas has fired only at civilians. Even in this war, to my astonishment, I see that they are not aiming at the army concentrations along the border but time and again at civilian communities"
Works in English translation
Novels
* ''
The Lover''
a-Me'ahev, 1977 Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1978 (translated by
Philip Simpson
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularize ...
). Dutton, 1985. Harvest/HBJ, 1993. . London
Halban Publishers 2004, 2007. .
* ''
A Late Divorce''
erushim Meuharim, 1982 London, Harvill Press, 1984. Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1984. London, Sphere/Abacus Books, 1985. New York, Dutton, 1985. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1993. . London
Halban Publishers2005. .
* ''Five Seasons''
olcho, 1987 New York, Doubleday, 1989. New York, Dutton Obelisk, 1989. London, Collins, 1989. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1990. London, Fontana, 1990, . London
Halban Publishers 2005, .
* ''Mr. Mani''
ar Mani, 1989 New York, Doubleday, 1992. London, Collins, 1992. London
Peter Halban 1993, 2002 . San Diego, Harvest/HBJ, 1993. London, Phoenix/Orion Books, 1994. .
* ''Open Heart''
a-Shiv`a Me-Hodu (The Return from India), 1994 Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1995. London
Halban Publishers 1996, . San Diego, Harvest/HBJ, 1997. .
* ''A Journey to the End of the Millennium''
asah El Tom Ha-Elef, 1997 New York, Doubleday & Co., 1999. London
Peter Halban 1999. .
* ''The Liberated Bride''
a-Kala Ha-Meshachreret, 2001 London
Peter Halban 2003, 2004, 2006. .
* ''A Woman in Jerusalem''
hlihuto Shel Ha-memouneh Al Mashabei Enosh (The Human Resources Supervisor's Mission), 2004 London
Halban Publishers 2006, 2011. . New York, Harcourt, 2006. .
* ''Friendly Fire: A Duet''
sh Yedidutit, 2007London
Halban Publishers 2008, . New York, Harcourt 2008, .
* ''The Retrospective''
סד ספרדי New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. . London
Halban Publishers 2013. .
* ''The Extra'', 2014
* ''The Tunnel,'' New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcour
The Tunnel 2020 August 4 . London, Halban Publisher
The Tunnel 2020 February 27 .
Short stories
* ''Early in the Summer of 1970''
i-Thilat Kayitz, 1970, 1972 Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1977. London, Heinemann, 1980. New York, Berkley Publishing, 1981. London, Fontana Paperbacks, 1990.
* ''Three Days and a Child''
hlosha Yamim Ve-Yeled, 1975 Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1970. London, Peter Owen, 1971.
* ''The Continuing Silence of a Poet''. London
Peter Halban 1988, 1999, . London, Fontana Paperbacks, 1990. London, New York, Penguin, 1991. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Essays
* ''Israel''. London, Collins, 1988. New York, Harper & Row, 1988. Jerusalem, Steimatzky/Collins Harvill, 1988.
* ''Between Right and Right''
ein Zechut Le-Zechut, 1980 Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1981.
* ''The Terrible Power of a Minor Guilt''
ocha Ha-Nora Shel Ashma Ktana, 1998 New York, Syracuse University Press, 2000.
"An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism" ''Azure'' (Spring 2008).
Plays
* ''A Night in May''
ayla Be-May, 1975 Tel Aviv, Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, 1974.
* ''Possessions''
afatzim, 1986 Portsmouth, Heinemann, 1993.
* ''Journey to the End of the Millennium'', libretto for opera with music by Yosef Bardnaashvili. Premiered at Israeli Opera, May 2005.
* ''A Tale of Two Zionists''. A play of 1934 meeting of
Vladimir Jabotinsky
Ze'ev Jabotinsky ( he, זְאֵב זַ׳בּוֹטִינְסְקִי, ''Ze'ev Zhabotinski'';, ''Wolf Zhabotinski'' 17 October 1880 – 3 August 1940), born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leade ...
and
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion ( ; he, דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Adopting the name ...
2012
See also
*
List of Israel Prize recipients
This is a complete list of recipients of the Israel Prize from the inception of the Prize in 1953 through to 2022.
List
For each year, the recipients are, in most instances, listed in the order in which they appear on the official Israel Prize ...
*
List of Bialik Prize recipients
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Hayim Nahman Bialik ...
References
Further reading
Books
# Halevi-Wise, Yael ''The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua'' (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2020)
The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua By Yael Halevi-Wise# Horn, Bernard. ''Facing the Fires: Conversations with A. B. Yehoshua'' (Syracuse: University of Syracuse Press, 1998).
# Miron, Dan. ''A. B. Yehoshua’s Ninth-and-a-Half:An “Ashkenazi” Perspective on Two “Sephardic” Novels''
ebrew Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2011.
# Balaban, Avraham. ''Mr. Molcho: In the Opposite Direction: An Analysis of A. B. Yehoshua’s'' Mr. Mani ''and ''Molcho
ebrew Tel Aviv: Ha-kibbutzha-meuchad, 1992.
# Banbaji, Amir, NitzaBen Dov and Ziva Shamir, eds. ''Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on A. B.Yehoshua’s Oeuvre''
ebrew Tel Aviv: Ha-kibbutz ha-meuchad, 2010.
# Ben-Dov, Nitza, ed. ''In the Opposite Direction: Articles on'' Mr. Mani
ebrew Tel Aviv: Ha-kibbutz ha-meuhad, 1995.
# Morahg, Gilead. ''Furious Compassion: The Fiction of A. B. Yehoshua''
ebrew Tel Aviv: Dvir, 2014.
Journal articles
# Gershon Shaked Interviews A. B. Yehoshua By: Shaked, Gershon; ''Modern Hebrew Literature'', 2006 Fall; 3: 157–69.
# A Haifa Life: The Israeli Novelist Talks about Ducking into His Safe Room, Competition among His Writer Friends and Trying to Stay Optimistic about Peace in the Middle East By: Solomon, Deborah; ''New York Times Magazine,'' July 30, 2006; 13.
# In the Back Yard of Agnon's House: Between ''The Liberated Bride'' by A. B. Yehoshua and
S. Y. Agnon
Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ...
By: Ben-Dov, Nitza; ''Hebrew Studies: A Journal Devoted to Hebrew Language and Literature,'' 2006; 47: 237–51.
# Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Watchman’s Stance in A. B. Yehoshua’s Fiction," ''Hebrew Studies'' 58 (2017): 357–382.
# Talking with A. B. Yehoshua By: Naves, Elaine Kalman; ''Queen's Quarterly,'' 2005 Spring; 112 (1): 76–86.
# Yael Halevi-Wise, “La formation d’une identité israélienne dans l’ouvre de A.B. Yehoshua.” ''Une journée avec Avraham Yehoshua: Revue Lacanienne'' 30 (2016): 161–172.
# The Silence of the Historian and the Ingenuity of the Storyteller: Rabbi Amnon of Mayence and Esther Minna of Worms By: Yuval, Israel Jacob; ''Common Knowledge,'' 2003 Spring; 9 (2): 228–40.
# The Plot of Suicide in A. B. Yehoshua and
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
By: Horn, Bernard; ''European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms,'' 2001 Oct; 6 (5): 633–38.
# The Originary Scene, Sacrifice, and the Politics of Normalization in A. B. Yehoshua's ''Mr. Mani'' By: Katz, Adam; ''Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology,'' 2001 Fall-2002 Winter; 7 (2): 9 paragraphs.
# Borderline Cases: National Identity and Territorial Affinity in A. B. Yehoshua's ''Mr. Mani'' By: Morahg, Gilead; ''AJS Review'' 30:1, 2006: 167–182.
# Yael Halevi-Wise, "Holidays in A. B. Yeshoshua's Opus and Ethos," ''Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Studies'' 35.2 (2017): 55–80.
# The Perils of Hybridity: Resisting the Post-Colonial Perspective in A. B. Yehoshua's ''The Liberating Bride'' By: Morahg, Gilead; ''AJS Review'' 33:2, 2009: 363–378.
# Portrait of the Artist as an Aging Scholar: A. B. Yehoshua's ''The Liberating Bride'' By: Morahg, Gilead; ''Hebrew Studies'' 50, 2009: 175–183.
# Early Warnings: The Grim Vision of The ''Liberating Bride'' By: Morahg, Gilead; ''Mikan'' 10, 2010: 5–18.
# Ranen Omer-Sherman, “On the verge of a long-craved intimacy’: Distance and Proximity Between Jews and Arab Identities in A. B. Yehoshua's ''The Liberated Bride'',” ''Journal of Jewish Identities'' 2.1 (2009): 55- 84.
#Yael Halevi-Wise, “Where is the Sephardism in A. B. Yehoshua’s ''Hesed Sefardi/The Retrospective''?” ''Sephardic Horizons'' 4.1 (2014)
Sephardic Horizons
Book articles
# Horn, Bernard. "Sephardic Identity and Its Discontents: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua" in Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination, Ed. Yael Halevi-Wise (Stanford University Press, 2012).
# Halevi-Wise, Yael. "A. B. Yehoshua’s ''Mr. Mani'' and the Playful Subjectivity of History,” in ''Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel.'' Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2003. 132–145.
# Morahg, Gilead. Shading the Truth: A. B. Yehoshua's 'Facing the Forests' IN: Cutter and Jacobson, ''History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band.'' Providence, RI: Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University; 2002. pp. 409–18
# Feldman, Yael. Between
Genesis
Genesis may refer to:
Bible
* Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind
* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...
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Sophocles
Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...
: Biblical Psychopolitics in A. B. Yehoshua's ''Mr. Mani'' IN: Cutter and Jacobson, ''History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band.'' Providence, RI: Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University; 2002. pp. 451–64
# Morahg, Gilead. A Story of Sweet Perdition: ''Mr. Mani'' and the Terrible Power of a Great Obsession. IN: Banbaji, Ben-Dov and Shamir, ''Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on A. B. Yehoshua’s Oeuvre''. Hakibbutz Hameuchad (Tel Aviv, 2010), pp. 213–225.
External links
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Abraham B. Yehoshua Institute for Translation of Hebrew LiteratureBio and list of works
short bio + links to books
* ''Above the Drowning Sea'', featured witness in documentary on the Shanghai Jews, 2017
Above the Drowning Sea WitnessesShort bio
Zeek MagazineShoshana Olidort's review of A.B. Yehoshua's ''Friendly Fire'' (2009)
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