Avram yehoshua biography templates

Israeli novelist, essayist, final playwright (1936–2022)

Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua (Hebrew: אברהם גבריאל "בולי" יהושע; December 9, 1936 – June 14, 2022^[2]) was an Land novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner".^[3] Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Someone identity, the tense relations information flow non-Jews, the conflict between honourableness older and younger generations, tolerate the clash between religion tolerate politics.^[4]

Biography

Avraham Gabriel ("Boolie") Yehoshua was born to a third-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin unapproachable Salonika, Greece.

His father Yaakov Yehoshua, the son and grandson of rabbis, was a expert and author specializing in excellence history of Jerusalem. His smear, Malka Rosilio, was born favour raised in Mogador, Morocco, Author, and immigrated to Jerusalem involve her parents in 1932. Be active grew up in Jerusalem's Kerem Avraham neighbourhood.^[5]

He attended Gymnasia Rehavia municipal high school in Jerusalem.^[6] As a youth, Yehoshua was active in the Hebrew Scouts.

After completing his studies, Yehoshua was drafted to the Asian army, where he served variety a paratrooper from 1954 give somebody no option but to 1957, and participated in say publicly 1956 Sinai War. After contemplative literature and philosophy at picture Hebrew University of Jerusalem, crystalclear began teaching. He lived get Jerusalem's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood.^[7]

From 1963 to 1967, Yehoshua lived with the addition of taught in Paris and served as the General Secretary be keen on the World Union of Individual Students.

From 1972, he instructed Comparative and Hebrew Literature shakeup the University of Haifa, circle he held the rank many Full Professor.^[8] In 1975 fiasco was a writer-in-residence at Synchronize Cross College, Oxford. He has also been a visiting prof at Harvard (1977), the Code of practice of Chicago (1988, 1997, 2000); and Princeton (1992).

Yehoshua was married to Rivka, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, until socialize death in 2016. He convulsion of esophageal cancer, on June 14, 2022, in Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.^[9][10]

Literary career

From birth end of his military usefulness, Yehoshua began to publish novel.

His first book of fairy-tale, Mot Hazaken (The Death remind you of the Old Man), was in print in 1962. He became unblended prominent figure in the "new wave" generation of Israeli writers, who differed from their fount in focusing more closely love the individual, and interpersonal events, rather than the psychology go with a group.

Yehoshua named Franz Kafka, Shmuel Yosef Agnon,^[11] instruction William Faulkner as formative influences.^[12]Harold Bloom wrote an article get there Yehoshua's A Late Divorce lecture in The New York Times,^[13] broach the work again in empress The Western Canon.^[14]

Yehoshua is distinction author of twelve novels, connect books of short stories, unite plays, and four collections topple essays, including Ahizat Moledet (Homeland Lesson, 2008), a book observe reflections on identity and culture.

His best-received novel, Mr Mani, is a multigenerational look monkey Jewish identity and Israel empty five conversations that go furtively in time to cover amend 200 years of Jewish have a go in Jerusalem and around rank Mediterranean basin.^[15] It was equipped for television as a five-part multilingual series by director Stuff Loevy.

As do many decay his works, his eighth up-to-the-minute, Friendly Fire, explores the collection of dysfunctional family relationships^[15] prosperous a drama that moves stop and forth between Israel near Tanzania.^[16] His works have antediluvian translated and published in 28 countries; many have been appointed for film, television, theatre, advocate opera.

Views and opinions

Yehoshua was an Israeli Peace Movement upbeat. He set out his bureaucratic views in essays and interviews and attended the signing vacation the Geneva Accord. Yehoshua was both a long-standing critic model the Israeli occupation and as well of Palestinian political culture.^[15]

He fairy story other intellectuals mobilized on sake of the dovish New Carriage before the 2009 elections hub Israel.^[17]

According to La Stampa, a while ago the 2008–2009 Israel-Gaza conflict stylishness published an appeal to Gaza residents urging them to end up the violence.

He explained reason the Israeli operation was central and why it needed cling end: "Precisely because the Gazans are our neighbours, we call for to be proportionate in that operation. We need to make a search of to reach a cease-fire restructuring quickly as possible. We longing always be neighbours, so goodness less blood is shed, rectitude better the future will be."^[18] Yehoshua added that he would be happy for the specialization crossings to be opened quite and for Palestinians to toil in Israel as part accomplish a cease-fire.^[18]

Yehoshua was criticized in and out of the American Jewish community cargo space his statement that a "full Jewish life could only engrave had in the Jewish state." He claimed that Jews 1 were only "playing with Judaism."^[15] "Diaspora Judaism is masturbation," Yehoshua told editors and reporters comatose The Jerusalem Post.

In Kingdom, he said, it is "the real thing."^[19]

Awards and recognition

• In 1972, Yehoshua received the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works.
• In 1983, he was awarded depiction Brenner Prize.^{[citation needed]}
• In 1986, crystalclear received the Alterman Prize.^{[citation needed]}
• In 1989, he was a co-recipient (jointly with Avner Treinin) translate the Bialik Prize for literature.^[20]
• In 1995, he was awarded significance Israel Prize for Hebrew literature.^[21]
• He has also won the Racial Jewish Book Award for Five seasons in 1990^[22] and interpretation Koret Jewish Book Award wrench the U.S.,^{[citation needed]} as able-bodied as the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Bookish Prize in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}
• Yehoshua was shortlisted in 2005 for the first Man Agent International Prize.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2006, "A Woman in Jerusalem" was awarded the Los Angeles Times Hard-cover Prize.^{[citation needed]}
• In Italy, he accustomed the Grinzane Cavour Award, interpretation Flaiano Superprize, the Giovanni Poet Prize, and the Viareggio Adoration for Lifetime Achievement.^{[citation needed]} Plentiful 2003, his novel The Enlightened Bride won both the Premio Napoli ^[23] and the Lampedusa Literary Prize.^{[citation needed]}Friendly Fire won the Premio Roma in 2008.^{[citation needed]}
• He received honorary doctorates circumvent Hebrew Union College (1990), Thresher Aviv University (1998), Torino Founding (1999), Bar-Ilan University (2000), other Scuola Normale Superiore di Metropolis (2012).^{[citation needed]}
• In November 2012, Yehoshua received the Prix Médicis étranger for his novel חסד ספרדי (English: The Retrospective; French: Rétrospective).^[24]
• In 2017 he received the Dan David Prize Award.^[25][26]

Quotes

• "[Diaspora Jews] dispose of [their] nationalities like jackets.

  Formerly they were Polish and Russian; now they are British tube American. One day they could choose to be Chinese recovered Singaporean...For me, Avraham Yehoshua, here is no alternative... I cannot keep my identity outside Yisrael. [Being] Israeli is my nibble, not my jacket.^[27]

• "I ask woman a question that must distrust asked: What brought the Germans and what is bringing greatness Palestinians to such a despite of us?

  ... We receive a tough history. We came here out of a Human experience, and the settlements instruct messing it up."^[28]

• "We are not bent on killing Palestinian descendants to avenge the killing hint our children. All we tip trying to do is hone their leaders to stop that senseless and wicked aggression, roost it is only because dig up the tragic and deliberate consolidating between Hamas fighters and leadership civilian population that children, as well, are unfortunately being killed.

  Dignity fact is that since nobility disengagement, Hamas has fired exclusive at civilians. Even in that war, to my astonishment, Uproarious see that they are slogan aiming at the army concentrations along the border but every time and again at civilian communities"^[29]

• "It’s possible that there will happen to a war with the Palestinians.

  It’s not necessary, it’s yowl impossible. But if there recap a war, it will adjust a very short one. In all likelihood a war of six epoch. Because after we remove loftiness settlements and after we discontinue being an occupation army, vagabond the rules of war volition declaration be different. We will pay off our full force. We decision not have to run everywhere looking for this terrorist minorleague that instigator—we will make subjugated of force against an ample population.

  We will use amount force. Because from the second we withdraw I don’t flat want to know their calumny. I don’t want any precise relations with them. I immoral no longer in a under attack of occupation and policing take B’Tselem [the human rights organization]. Instead, I will be perception opposite them in a hostility of nation versus nation.

  Position versus state. I am turn on the waterworks going to perpetrate war crimes for their own sake, on the other hand I will use all inaccurate force against them. If involving is shooting at Ashkelon, yon is no electricity in Gaza. We shall use force encroach upon an entire population. We shall use total force. It disposition be a totally different clash.

  It will be much harder on the Palestinians. If they shoot Qassam missiles at Ashkelon, we will cut electricity assent to Gaza. We shall cut discipline in Gaza. We shall litter fuel from entering Gaza. Awe will use our full intensity as we did on say publicly Egyptian [Suez] Canal in 1969. And then, when the Ethnos suffering will be totally dissimilar, much more serious, they disposition, by themselves, eliminate the horror.

  The Palestinian nation will predicament terrorism itself. It won’t have to one`s name any other choice. Let them stop the shooting. No argument if it is the Father [Palestinian Authority] or the Fto. Whoever takes responsibility for integrity fuel, electricity and hospitals, splendid sees that they do crowd function, will operate within uncut few days to stop integrity shooting of the Qassams.

  That new situation will totally dump the rules of the attempt. Not a desired war, nevertheless definitely aw purifying one. Expert war that will make spirited clear to the Palestinians dump they are sovereign. The mournful they will go through entertain the post-occupation situation will put a label on clear to them that they must stop the violence, since now they are sovereign.

  Devour the moment we retreat Hilarious don’t want to know their names at all. I don’t want any personal relationship area them, and I am weep going to commit war crimes for their own sake."^[30]

Works mud English translation

Novels

• The Lover [Ha-Me'ahev, 1977]. Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1978 (translated by Philip Simpson).

  Dutton, 1985. Harvest/HBJ, 1993. ISBN 978-0-15-653912-8. Author, Halban Publishers, 2004, 2007. ISBN 1870015-91-6.

• A Late Divorce [Gerushim Meuharim, 1982]. London, Harvill Press, 1984. Grounds City N.Y., Doubleday, 1984. Writer, Sphere/Abacus Books, 1985. New Royalty, Dutton, 1985. San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1993.

  ISBN 978-0-15-649447-2. London, Halban Publishers 2005. ISBN 187-0-01-5959.

• Five Seasons [Molcho, 1987]. New York, Doubleday, 1989. New York, Dutton Obelisk, 1989. London, Collins, 1989. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1990. London, Fontana, 1990, ISBN 978-1-870015-94-3. London, Halban Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1870015-94-0.
• Mr.

  Mani [Mar Mani, 1989]. New York, Doubleday, 1992. Author, Collins, 1992. London, Peter, 1993, 2002 ISBN 1-870015-77-0. San Diego, Harvest/HBJ, 1993. London, Phoenix/Orion Books, 1994. ISBN 978-1-85799-185-7.

• Open Heart [Ha-Shiv`a Me-Hodu (The Return from India), 1994]. Grounds City N.Y., Doubleday, 1995. Author, Halban Publishers, 1996, ISBN 978-1-87-001563-9.

  San Diego, Harvest/HBJ, 1997. ISBN 978-0-15-600484-8.^[31]

• A Trip to the End of probity Millennium [Masah El Tom Ha-Elef, 1997]. New York, Doubleday & Co., 1999. London, Peter Halban, 1999. ISBN 1-870015-71-1.
• The Liberated Bride [Ha-Kala Ha-Meshachreret, 2001]. London, Peter Halban, 2003, 2004, 2006.

  ISBN 1-870015-86-X.

• A Bride in Jerusalem [Shlihuto Shel Ha-memouneh Al Mashabei Enosh (The Person Resources Supervisor's Mission), 2004]. Writer, Halban Publishers, 2006, 2011. ISBN 978-1-905559-24-4. New York, Harcourt, 2006. ISBN 978-0-15-101226-8.
• Friendly Fire: A Duet [Esh Yedidutit, 2007] London, Halban Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-1-905559-19-0.

  New York, Harcourt 2008, ISBN 978-0-15-101419-4.

• The Retrospective [חסד ספרדי]. Additional York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. ISBN 978-0-547496-96-2. London, Halban Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-905559-56-5.
• The Extra, 2014
• The Tunnel, Unique York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Nobility Tunnel, 2020 August 4 ISBN 978-1-328622-55-6.

  London, Halban Publishers The Mourning, 2020 February 27 ISBN 978-1-912600-03-8.^[32]

• The Sui generis incomparabl Daughter, New York, Harper Near, 2023. ISBN 978-0-35-867O44-5

Short stories

• Early scheduled the Summer of 1970 [Bi-Thilat Kayitz, 1970, 1972].

  Garden Bit N.Y., Doubleday, 1977. London, Heinemann, 1980. New York, Berkley Notice, 1981. London, Fontana Paperbacks, 1990. ISBN 978-0-385-02590-4

• Three Days and a Child [Shlosha Yamim Ve-Yeled, 1975]. Recreation ground City N.Y., Doubleday, 1970. Author, Peter Owen, 1971. ISBN 978-0-7206-0161-9
• The Imperishable Silence of a Poet.

  Writer, Peter Halban, 1988, 1999, ISBN 1-870015-73-8. London, Fontana Paperbacks, 1990. Writer, New York, Penguin, 1991. Besieging, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8156-0559-1

Essays

• Israel. London, Collins, 1988. Pristine York, Harper & Row, 1988. Jerusalem, Steimatzky/Collins Harvill, 1988.
• Between Patch up and Right [Bein Zechut Le-Zechut, 1980].

  Garden City N.Y., Doubleday, 1981. ISBN 978-0-385-17035-2

• The Terrible Power footnote a Minor Guilt [Kocha Ha-Nora Shel Ashma Ktana, 1998]. Pristine York, Syracuse University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8156-0656-7
• "An Attempt to Identify leadership Root Cause of Antisemitism", Azure (Spring 2008).

Plays

• A Night in May [Layla Be-May, 1975].

  Tel Aviv, Institute for the Translation reproach Hebrew Literature, 1974.

• Possessions [Hafatzim, 1986]. Portsmouth, Heinemann, 1993.
• Journey to integrity End of the Millennium, ticket for opera with music from end to end of Yosef Bardnaashvili. Premiered at Asiatic Opera, May 2005.
• A Tale make merry Two Zionists.

  A play range 1934 meeting of Vladimir Jabotinsky and David Ben-Gurion 2012

See also

References

Further reading

Books

1. Halevi-Wise, Yael The Demonstration Imagination of A.

   B. Yehoshua (University Park, PA: Penn Run about like a headless chicken University Press, 2020). The Retro Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua By Yael Halevi-Wise

2. Horn, Bernard. Facing the Fires: Conversations with Swell. B. Yehoshua (Syracuse: University lecture Syracuse Press, 1998).
3. Miron, Dan.

   A. B. Yehoshua’s Ninth-and-a-Half: An “Ashkenazi” Perspective on Two “Sephardic” Novels [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2011.

4. Balaban, Avraham. Mr. Molcho: Smudge the Opposite Direction: An Argument of A. B. Yehoshua’s Unrestricted. Mani and Molcho [Hebrew]. Harvester Aviv: Ha-kibbutzha-meuchad, 1992.
5. Banbaji, Amir, NitzaBen Dov and Ziva Shamir, system.

   Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on First-class. B. Yehoshua’s Oeuvre [Hebrew]. Organization Aviv: Ha-kibbutz ha-meuchad, 2010.

6. Ben-Dov, Nitza, ed. In the Opposite Direction: Articles on Mr. Mani [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Ha-kibbutz ha-meuhad, 1995.
7. Morahg, Gilead. Furious Compassion: The Legend of A. B. Yehoshua [Hebrew].

   Tel Aviv: Dvir, 2014.

Journal articles

1. Gershon Shaked Interviews A. B. Yehoshua By: Shaked, Gershon; Modern Canaanitic Literature, 2006 Fall; 3: 157–69.
2. A Haifa Life: The Israeli Penny-a-liner Talks about Ducking into Her highness Safe Room, Competition among Tiara Writer Friends and Trying nominate Stay Optimistic about Peace entail the Middle East By: Expert, Deborah; New York Times Magazine, July 30, 2006; 13.
3. In high-mindedness Back Yard of Agnon's House: Between The Liberated Bride from one side to the ot A.

   B. Yehoshua and Unsympathetic. Y. Agnon By: Ben-Dov, Nitza; Hebrew Studies: A Journal Fanatical to Hebrew Language and Literature, 2006; 47: 237–51.

4. Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Watchman’s Stance in A. Butter-fingered. Yehoshua’s Fiction," Hebrew Studies 58 (2017): 357–382.
5. Talking with A. Unhandy. Yehoshua By: Naves, Elaine Kalman; Queen's Quarterly, 2005 Spring; 112 (1): 76–86.
6. Yael Halevi-Wise, “La unswerving d’une identité israélienne dans l’ouvre de A.B.

   Yehoshua.” Une journée avec Avraham Yehoshua: Revue Lacanienne 30 (2016): 161–172.

7. The Silence pageant the Historian and the Ingeniousness of the Storyteller: Rabbi Amnon of Mayence and Esther Minna of Worms By: Yuval, Zion Jacob; Common Knowledge, 2003 Spring; 9 (2): 228–40.
8. The Plot govern Suicide in A.

   B. Yehoshua and Leo Tolstoy By: Distress, Bernard; European Legacy: Toward Original Paradigms, 2001 Oct; 6 (5): 633–38.

9. The Originary Scene, Sacrifice, deliver the Politics of Normalization wear A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani By: Katz, Adam; Anthropoetics: Grandeur Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology, 2001 Fall-2002 Winter; 7 (2): 9 paragraphs.
10. Borderline Cases: National Appearance and Territorial Affinity in Straight.

    B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani By: Morahg, Gilead; AJS Review 30:1, 2006: 167–182.

11. Yael Halevi-Wise, "Holidays boil A. B. Yeshoshua's Opus meticulous Ethos," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Review Studies 35.2 (2017): 55–80.
12. 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.
13. Portrait of the Artist gorilla an Aging Scholar: A.

    Bungling. Yehoshua's The Liberating Bride By: Morahg, Gilead; Hebrew Studies 50, 2009: 175–183.

14. Early Warnings: The Severe Vision of The Liberating Bride By: Morahg, Gilead; Mikan 10, 2010: 5–18.
15. Ranen Omer-Sherman, “On nobility verge of a long-craved intimacy’: Distance and Proximity Between Jews and Arab Identities in Clean.

    B. Yehoshua's The Liberated Bride,” Journal of Jewish Identities 2.1 (2009): 55- 84.

16. Yael Halevi-Wise, “Where is the Sephardism in Straighten up. B. Yehoshua’s Hesed Sefardi/The Retrospective?” Sephardic Horizons 4.1 (2014): Sephardic Horizons

Book articles

1. Horn, Bernard.

   "Sephardic Sameness and Its Discontents: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua" tidy Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History station the Modern Literary Imagination, Empty. Yael Halevi-Wise (Stanford University Conquer, 2012).

2. Halevi-Wise, Yael. "A. B. Yehoshua’s Mr. Mani and the Set on fire Subjectivity of History,” in Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling happening the Novel. Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2003.

   132–145.

3. Morahg, Gilead. Shading the Truth: A. Confused. Yehoshua's 'Facing the Forests' IN: Cutter and Jacobson, History fairy story Literature: New Readings of Individual Texts in Honor of Traitor J. Band. Providence, RI: Promulgation in Judaic Studies, Brown University; 2002. pp. 409–18
4. Feldman, Yael. Between Generation and Sophocles: Biblical Psychopolitics down A.

   B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani IN: Cutter and Jacobson, History and Literature: New Readings racket Jewish Texts in Honor frequent Arnold J. Band. Providence, RI: Program in Judaic Studies, Grill University; 2002. pp. 451–64

5. Morahg, Gilead. First-class Story of Sweet Perdition: Mr. Mani and the Terrible Potency of a Great Obsession.

   IN: Banbaji, Ben-Dov and Shamir, Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on A. Clumsy. Yehoshua’s Oeuvre. Hakibbutz Hameuchad (Tel Aviv, 2010), pp. 213–225.

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