AB Yehoshua, Israeli writer and peace activist, passed away

June 14, 2022 at 08:40 a.m.
AB Yehoshua. Source: The Times of Israel
AB Yehoshua. Source: The Times of Israel

 

AB Yehoshua, prominent author Israeli celebrated for his mastery of the Hebrew language and his great activism for the peace, died this Tuesday at the age of 85.

According to the Washington Post, the writer's death was confirmed by a hospital in Tel Aviv which revealed that this was due to cancer.

He was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and his work was widely translated and adapted to film and theater.

His first book, The old man's death, was published in 1962, and his most recent work, a novel titled the third temple, was published earlier this year.

 

 

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His works won numerous literary awards, including the Israel Prize for Literature in 1995.

Beyond his work, Yehoshúa was one of the main voices Jews, joining fellow authors Amos Oz and David Grossman in calling for a peaceful solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.

 

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Source: Haaretz

 

He was born into one of the families oldest Sephardim in Jerusalem and lived more than half of his life in Haifa, in the north of Israel, the port city that he considered to be the most harmonious in a country plagued by conflicts. 

 

 

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Marriage and love were the main narrative axes of almost all of AB Yehoshúa's work.

 

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Source: The Times of Israel