A. B. Yehoshua

Abraham B. Yehoshua (Hebrew אברהם ב יהושע, . Born December 19, 1936 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli writer and university teacher.

Life

Abraham B. Yehoshua comes from a family of Sephardic Jews. His father was the historian Yaakov Yehoshua, his mother Malka Rosilio. Between 1954 and 1957, Jehoshua served in the Israeli Paratrooper Brigade and fought in the Sinai Campaign.

From 1957 he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, literature and philosophy. From this time his first literary attempts originate. In 1962 he made ​​his debut successful with an anthology of some stories. During this time he married the psychoanalyst Rivka, with whom he has three children.

1963 Jehoshua went to Paris at the Sorbonne and remained there until 1967. Parallel to his academic duties, he led during this time as Secretary-General of the World Union of Jewish Students. In 1972 he accepted a professorship at the University of Haifa and teaches there ever since Comparative Literature and Hebrew literature. Interrupted only by a few study abroad: 1974 Writer in Residence at St Cross College ( University of Oxford) and a visiting professor at Harvard University ( 1977), Chicago (1988, 1997, 2000 ) and Princeton (1982).

Reception

Yehoshua is one of the most famous and popular writers in Israel. His works include short stories, novels, plays and political essays. Jehoshua itself counts William Faulkner, Samuel Agnon and Kafka among his most important role models. The literary critic Harold Bloom compared him in 1984 in an article with the former.

He has made it his mission to play an intermediary role between Arabs and Israelis. He is a proponent of a separate Palestinian state.

In his literary work Jehoshua also addressed repeatedly important political issues. The novel The Lover plays in Israel in 1973 at the time of the Yom Kippur War. The political and military conditions are reflected in the decline of a family. The action is shown from six different perspectives, including that of an Arab.

In his novel The Journey to the millennium mix the Arab and Jewish worlds in the Middle Ages of the year 1000 AD In Focus are two Jewish merchants, uncle and nephew, the former in Arab North Africa, the latter lives in Christian France of those. Again, the reconciliation of different cultural and religious worlds is sought.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • In view of the woods. Narratives. Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11664-7.
  • Early summer of 1970. Fischer paperback publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1989, ISBN 3-596-29326- X.
  • The continuing silence of a poet The collected stories. Halban, London, 1988, ISBN 1-870015-14-2.
  • The lovers. Novel. 3rd Ed Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-21769-9 (EA 1980).
  • The Journey into the millennium. Novel in three parts. Piper, Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-492-04012-8 (EA 1997).
  • Late divorce. Novel. Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-21723-0 ( translated by Barbara Linner ).
  • The Manis. Novel. Neuaufl. Piper, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-492-23369-4.
  • The return from India. Novel. Piper, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03772-0.
  • The five seasons of the Molcho. Novel. Neuaufl. Piper, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-492-11556- X (EA 1989).
  • Friends fire. Novel. Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05161-3.
  • The Liberated Bride. Novel.
  • The Passion of the personnel officer. Novel.
  • Spanish mercy. Translated from Hebrew by Mark Lemke. 2013 ISBN 978-3-518-42397-4
  • A night in May A play in three acts. Tel Aviv in 1974.
  • Objects.
  • A woman in Jerusalem. Halban, London 2006, ISBN 1-870015-98-3.
  • Legacies. Theaterverlag cargo, Munich 1986.
  • Exile of the Jews. A neurotic solution? Publisher Roehrig, St. Ingbert, 1986, ISBN 3-924555-08-7.
  • Between right and right. Doubleday, Garden City, New York 12981, ISBN 978-0-385-17035-2.
Israeli literature St Cross College, Oxford Arab people Bialik Prize Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Integrated Authority File
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