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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

A.B. Yehoshua

Clockwise from top right: Svika Pick, Peter Bogdanovich, Miriam Naor, Gerda Weissman Klein, James Caan, Bob Saget, Estelle Harris, A.B. Yehoshua. (Getty Images/Design by Grace Yage, via JTA)
December 31, 2022, 5:08 pm
From Albright to Yehoshua: 18 notable Jews who died in 2022
These Jewish icons leave outsized legacies in politics, the arts, sports, and everything in between
By CALEB GUEDES-REED and Gabe Friedman
Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua. (Courtesy/ Rafaela Fahn Schoffman)
June 14, 2022, 9:43 am
A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli literary giant and ardent humanist, dies aged 85
Influential author, recipient of the Israel Prize and dozens of other awards, was also known as a sharp-tongued polemicist and staunch Zionist
By Mitch Ginsburg
Writer Stuart Schoffman, a longtime journalist and translator in Jerusalem, died at 74 on November 7, 2021 (Courtesy Stuart Schoffman Facebook page)
November 8, 2021, 1:35 pm
Stuart Schoffman, a master and devotee of Hebrew culture, dies at 74
A journalist, screenwriter, thinker and translator of some of Israel’s greatest writers, Schoffman was known for his words and warmth; colleague recalls a ‘genius and a mensch’
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua's new book, 'The Tunnel,' talks about a one-state solution. (Courtesy/ Rafaela Fahn Schoffman)
May 3, 2020, 5:45 am
Peace activist author A.B. Yehoshua now pushes for a one-state solution
In conversation with ToI to mark release of new book, ‘The Tunnel,’ the writer says, ‘We have to integrate the Palestinians into Israel, by the right or the left’
By Anne Joseph
Acclaimed author Etgar Keret at the award ceremony for the 2019 Sapir Prize, Israel's equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, for his latest collection of short stories, 'A Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy' Shuka Cohen)
January 22, 2019, 11:52 pm
Flash fiction master Etgar Keret snags Israel’s top literary award
Acclaimed author of absurdist short stories wins Sapir Prize for collection, ‘A Glitch at the Edge of the Galaxy’
By Jessica Steinberg
Amos Oz takes part in the International Writers Festival in Jerusalem on May 3, 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
December 29, 2018, 7:52 pm
Fellow writers, Natalie Portman mourn death of ‘brave’ ‘mensch’ Amos Oz
Author David Grossman says ‘the world is diminished a little’ with Oz’s passing; A.B. Yehoshua eulogizes a ‘wonderful writer’ and friend
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, July 15, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Yedioth Ahronoth)
July 29, 2018, 11:40 pm
180 artists, authors, intellectuals call for cancellation of nation-state law
Signatories of open letter to Netanyahu, including Amos Oz, David Grossman, A. B. Yehoshua, also decry law barring gay couples from surrogacy
By JTA
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua at a writers conference in Jerusalem, February 7, 2013. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
August 1, 2017, 10:18 am
A.B. Yehoshua: ‘Leave the Temple Mount to the Muslims’
Tisha B’Av not about mourning destruction of buildings but about failure of Jewish Diaspora to return to Israel, says famed author
By Sue Surkes
A visitor at a previous Jerusalem International Book Fair, which is held every two years (Courtesy Dudi Saad)
June 7, 2017, 9:16 am
Top authors to descend on capital for book fair
Meir Shalev, A.B. Yehoshua and international writers to be on hand as International Book Fair joins forces with Hebrew Book Week from June 11-15
By Jessica Steinberg
Screen capture of author Jamaica Kincaid who in was named as a winner of the Dan David Prize in February 2017. (screen capture: Chicago Humanities Festival/YouTube)
February 7, 2017, 11:26 pm
Jamaica Kincaid among winners of Israeli foundation prize
Antiguan-American author honored with Tel Aviv University’s Dan David award for being an ‘important and influential writer’
By AP
Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua at a writers conference in Jerusalem, February 7, 2013. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
December 21, 2016, 10:16 am
Dovish author Yehoshua seems to back Bennett’s West Bank plan
Without mentioning right-wing minister’s idea, A.B. Yehoshua says he is in favor of citizenship for Area C Palestinians, as two-state solution not feasible due to settlements
By Ben Sales
Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, speaks during a panel in Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2015. (Flash90)
January 31, 2016, 10:56 pm
Im Tirtzu head suspends self over ‘culture mole’ campaign
Matan Peleg blasts his own organization’s move to out left-wing artists and cultural figures, says he needs time to ‘soul-search’
By ToI Staff
Opposition leader Issac Herzog posing with a copy of Dorit Rabinyan's "Gader Haya" surrounded by students at the pre-army academy in Sderot, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Zionist Union)
December 31, 2015, 8:54 pm
Book nixed for schools over ‘intermarriage’ fears flies off the shelves
Publisher announces new print run for Dorit Rabinyan’s love story between Israeli Jewish woman, Palestinian man; education minister: it depicts IDF as ‘sadists’
By ToI Staff
Israeli students at Beit Ezekiel elementary school (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
December 31, 2015, 3:03 pm
Outcry as government pulls book over ‘intermarriage’ fears
Love story between an Israeli woman and an Arab man rejected from school curriculum for ‘threatening Jewish identity’
By Raoul Wootliff
Ken Cheeseman (left) and Jeremiah Kissel in an Israeli Stage production of 'Ulysses on Bottles' (Paul Marotta)
December 16, 2015, 11:13 am
Boston theater puts Israeli playwrights in the spotlight
Guy Ben-Aharon’s Israeli Stage company exposes American audiences to thought-provoking plays from Israel
By Penny Schwartz
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