Amos Oz

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Jonathan S. TobinDecember 31, 2018
Amos Oz and the centrality of Hebrew in Jewish life
The great novelist’s passing should remind us that understanding the glories of modern Hebrew literature is essential to the future of the Jewish people.
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Fiamma NirensteinDecember 31, 2018
Outlived, always, by the power of his words
Amos Oz came to embody the ideal of a “virtuous Israel”—namely, of a man who works the fields by day and writes novels at night, and who dreams of peace and must go to war.
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Reactions pour in following the passing of Amos Oz, 79, who leaves a literary ‘void’
Jackson RichmanDecember 28, 2018
“Mourning the loss of one of Israel’s prominent literary voices,” tweeted Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon. “A loss for us all and for the world. May his memory be blessed.”
Israeli author and intellectual Amos Oz died from cancer on Dec. 28, 2018, at the age of 79. Credit: Blaues Sofa/Flickr.
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Israeli author and intellectual Amos Oz dies at age 79
December 28, 2018
He earned numerous awards, including the Israel Prize, France’s Prix Femina and Officier des Arts et Lettres, Italy’s Primo Levi Prize and the Frankfurt Peace Prize.
Israeli author Amos Oz at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2013. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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At J Street conference, Amos Oz calls AIPAC ‘hawkish, militaristic’
Jonah CohenMarch 26, 2012
Amos Oz addressing the J Street conference in Washington, D.C. Credit: J Street.
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