A. B. Yehoshua
Live at the Prague Writers' Festival, 2 - 6 June.
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Featuring A. B. Yehoshua Avraham “Boolie” Yehoshua, known publicly as A.B. Yehoshua, was born in Jerusalem in 1936. Widely considered one of the best Israeli writers of his generation, Yehoshua has published many novels, essays, plays, and short stories in his native Hebrew. He studied literature and philosophy at Hebrew University and began publishing fiction after his military service, quickly becoming an important member of the “new wave” generation of Israeli writers. |
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A.B. Yehoshua In conversation with Gershon Shaked |
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A. B. Yehoshua: The Liberated Bride |
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A. B. Yehoshua: Adam And in the last war we lost a lover. We used to have a lover, and since the war he is gone. Just disappeared. He and his grandmother´s old Morris. And more than six months have passed and there has been no sign from him. We are always saying it´s a small, intimate country, if you try hard enough you´ll discover links between the most distant people – and now it´s as if the man has been swallowed up by the earth, disappeared without trace, and all the searches have been fruitless. |
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A. B. Yehoshua: A Woman in Jerusalem Even though the manager of the human resources division had not sought such a mission, now, in the softly radiant morning, he grasped its unexpected significance. The minute the extraordinary request of the old woman who stood in her monk's robe by the dying fire was translated and explained to him, he felt a sudden lifting of his spirits, and Jerusalem, the shabby, suffering city he had left just a week ago, was once more bathed in a glow of importance, as it had been in his childhood. |
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A. B. Yehoshua: Power and pity Described by Saul Bellow as one of Israel's world-class writers, AB Yehoshua has provoked fury at home and abroad with his controversial views on Jewishness and the future of Jerusalem. Interview by Maya Jaggi Saturday June 24, 2006 The Guardian |
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