Amnon Shamosh (28 January 1929 – 1 March 2022) was an Israeli author and poet.
Biography
Shamosh was born in
Aleppo
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Syria
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France. In his childhood he immigrated to
Mandatory Palestine and participated in the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...
in a
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Companies") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach ...
unit. He studied 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 was a founder of
kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
Ma'ayan Baruch
Ma'ayan Baruch ( he, מַעְיַן בָּרוּךְ, ''lit.'' Blessed Spring) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the intersection of the Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional C ...
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Shamosh died in Ma'ayan Baruch on 1 March 2022, at the age of 93.
Selected works
Shamosh wrote in hebrew stories, novels, and poetry:
* ''My Sister the Bride'' (1974, Massada Press, published in English in 1979)
* ''Michel Ezra Safra and Sons'' (1978, Massada Press)
* ''Calamus and Cinnamon'' (1979, Massada Press)
* ''A Kibbutz is a Kibbutz is a Kibbutz'' (1980, Massada Press)
* ''With Me from Lebanon'' (1981, Hakibbutz Hameuchad)
* ''The Cedars of Lebanon'' (1990, Massada Press)
* ''Marrano Mountain'' (1991, Massada Press, published in English in 1992)
* ''Autumn Stories, Fall Colors'' (1995, Modan)
* ''On the Silk Road'' (2000, Aviv)
* ''Liri's Chronicles: Stories from the Third Half'' (2015, Massada Press)
Shamosh also wrote non-fiction books
* ''Haketer, the Story of the
Aleppo Codex
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* ''From the Source'' (1988, Carta)
* ''Good Morning Alz Heimer'' (2015, Massada Press)
Awards and recognition
Shamosh was awarded the President's Prize for Literature in 2001. He also received many other awards for his writing.
See also
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Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though there have been cases of literature written in Hebrew by non-Jews. Hebrew literature was pro ...
References
1929 births
2022 deaths
Syrian Jews
Palmach members
Israeli non-fiction writers
Israeli novelists
Hebrew-language writers
Hebrew-language poets
Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent
Jews from the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine
Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Writers from Aleppo
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