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unusual facts about A.B. Yehoshua



Center for Cultural Judaism

A hybrid of literary and scholarly writing, its contributors have included Amos Oz, Ilan Stavans, and A.B. Yehoshua; the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky; and a host of well-known writers and thinkers.

Hillel Halkin

He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev.

Nicholas de Lange

De Lange has translated several works of fiction by Amos Oz, S. Yizhar and A.B. Yehoshua into English.

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Elhanan criticized Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua for comments he made in reference to the cultural gap between Jews and Arabs that Yehoshua said was the reason they could never live together.

Yanun

On October 30, 2002, together with David Shulman, a group that included the distinguished Israeli writers Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, the daughter of Haim Gouri, with Rabbi Menachem Froman, co-founder of Gush Emunim and a settler in Tekoa, Ian Buruma and an assortment of Israeli television camera crews and journalists visited Yanun to assist the returned villagers with their harvest and ward off settlers.


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