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Yehoshua, Abraham B. was born on December 9, 1936 in Jerusalem. Son of Yaakov Yehoshua and Malka (Rosolio).
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A Late Divorce
( “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle wa...)
“Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle ways in which human beings torment one another under license of family ties will appreciate the merits of A.B. Yehoshua’s A Late Divorce.” —London Review of Books A powerful story about a family—and a country —in crisis. The father of three grown children comes back to Israel to get a divorce from his wife of many years; another woman, newly pregnant, awaits him in America. Narrated in turn by each family member—husband and wife, sons and daughter, young grandson—the drama builds to a crescendo at the traditional family gathering on Passover Eve. “Each character here is brilliantly realized . . . Thank goodness for a novel that is ambitious and humane and that is about things that really matter”—New Statesman "A master storyteller whose tales reveal the inner life of a vital, conflicted nation.” — Wall Street Journal
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages
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A Journey to the End of the MillenniumA JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM by Yehoshua, Abraham B. (Author) on May-01-2000 Paperback
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Viaje al fin del milenio / A Journey to the End of the Millennium (Spanish Edition)
(Book by Yehoshua, Abraham B.)
Book by Yehoshua, Abraham B.
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by Yehoshua A. B. (2000-06-15) Paperback
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A Woman in Jerusalem
( A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombin...)
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery’s owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This man is at first reluctant to take on the job, but as the facts of the woman’s life take shape—she was an engineer from the former Soviet Union, a non-Jew on a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and, judging by an early photograph, beautiful—he yields to feelings of regret, atonement, and even love. At once profoundly serious and highly entertaining, A. B. Yehoshua astonishes us with his masterly, often unexpected turns in the story and with his ability to get under the skin and into the soul of Israel today.
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A Woman in Jerusalem
(A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the...)
A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the victims is a migrant worker without any papers, only a salary slip from the bakery where she worked as a night cleaner. As her body lies unclaimed in the morgue, her employers are labelled unfeeling and inhuman by a local journalist. The manager of human resources is given the task of discovering who she was and why she had come to Jerusalem. As the image of this once-beautiful dead woman begins to obsess him, the manager turns this duty into a personal mission - he is no longer just saving his company's reputation by trying to discover her identity and assure her of a dignified funeral. He is now restoring her not only to her family and country but also to common humanity - whilst at the same time conquering the hardness of his own heart. "There are human riches here. The manager moves from a man who has given up on love to one who opens himself to it. And there are strange and powerful scenes - of the morgue, of the coffin, of the Soviet base where the manager passes through the purging of body and soul." Carole Angier, The Independent
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Late Divorce
(Novel in Hebrew. Printed in Israel)
Novel in Hebrew. Printed in Israel
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A Woman in Jerusalem by Yehoshua A. B. (2007-08-06) Paperback
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- Journey to the End of the Millennium 1st edition by Yehoshua, Abraham B. (1999) Hardcover
- A Journey to the End of the Millennium First U.S.Cloth Editon
- Journey to the End of the Millennium, a.
- CHAPTER ONE: A MYSTERY SAMPLER: SPRING 1993 [THE STOLEN GODS + ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD + DEAD FOLKS' BLUES + DEATH AND THE DELINQUENT + ALL THE DARK DISGUISES + TILL THE OLD MEN DIE + THE JEWEL THAT WAS OURS]
- The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart (The Four Immeasurables—the cultivation of loving-kindness...)
Other Work
- Author: (short stories) The Death of the Old Man, 1962, Facing the Forest, 1968. (plays) A Night in May, Last Treatments, Possessions, Night's Babies. (novel) At the Beginning of Summer 1970, The Lover, 1976, A Late Divorce, 1982 (Premio International Flaino 1996), Five Seasons, 1986 (Torino Cavour prize 1994), Mr.Mani, 1990 (Booker prize 1992, Jewish Quaterly prize 1993), Open Heart, 1994, A Journey to the End of the Millennium, 1997, The Moral Context of the Literary Text, 1997, The Liberating Bride, 2001, A Woman in Jerusalem, 2006. (film or stage) Three Days and a Child, The Lover, Continuing Silence of a Poet, At the Beginning of Summer, 1970, Facing the Forests. Member editorial board Siman Krea, Tel-Aviv Review, Mifgash, Keshet, 1966-1974.Contributor stories to Massa, Haaretz, Keshet. Books translated into 20 languages.
Abraham B. B. Yehoshua
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Abraham B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer, comparative literature educator. Recipient Akum prize, 1961, Municipality of Ramat-Gan prize, 1968, Prime Minister prize, 1972, Brenner prize, 1983, Alterman prize, 1986, Bialik prize, 1989, American National award 1990, 93, Israeli prize, 1995, Koret prize Associated Press, 2000. Member board art Haifa Municipal Theatre; member Kibbutz Chatzerim; activist Israeli Peace Movement. With Israeli Army, 1954-1957.
Education
Graduate in Philosophy and Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1990.
Career
Writer and university professor. Served in paratroopers unit 1954-1957. Director Israeli School in Paris 1964.
General Secretary World Union of Jewish Studies, Paris 1964-1967. Dean of Students, Haifa University 1967-1972, Professor, of Comparative Literature since 1972. Visiting Professor, Harvard University, United States of America 1977, University of Chicago 1988.
Co-Editor Keshet 1965-1972, Siman Eria since 1973, Tel Aviv Review.
Works
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The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart
(The Four Immeasurables—the cultivation of loving-kindness...)
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A Late Divorce
( “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle wa...)
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A Woman in Jerusalem
( A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombin...)
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A Woman in Jerusalem
(A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the...)
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Viaje al fin del milenio / A Journey to the End of the Millennium (Spanish Edition)
(Book by Yehoshua, Abraham B.)
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Late Divorce
(Novel in Hebrew. Printed in Israel)
- A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages
- A Journey to the End of the MillenniumA JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM by Yehoshua, Abraham B. (Author) on May-01-2000 Paperback
- A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages by Yehoshua A. B. (2000-06-15) Paperback
- Journey to the End of the Millennium 1st edition by Yehoshua, Abraham B. (1999) Hardcover
- A Journey to the End of the Millennium First U.S.Cloth Editon
- Journey to the End of the Millennium, a.
- CHAPTER ONE: A MYSTERY SAMPLER: SPRING 1993 [THE STOLEN GODS + ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD + DEAD FOLKS' BLUES + DEATH AND THE DELINQUENT + ALL THE DARK DISGUISES + TILL THE OLD MEN DIE + THE JEWEL THAT WAS OURS]
- A Woman in Jerusalem by Yehoshua A. B. (2007-08-06) Paperback
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The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart
Other Work
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Author: (short stories) The Death of the Old Man, 1962, Facing the Forest, 1968. (plays) A Night in May, Last Treatments, Possessions, Night's Babies. (novel) At the Beginning of Summer 1970, The Lover, 1976, A Late Divorce, 1982 (Premio International Flaino 1996), Five Seasons, 1986 (Torino Cavour prize 1994), Mr.Mani, 1990 (Booker prize 1992, Jewish Quaterly prize 1993), Open Heart, 1994, A Journey to the End of the Millennium, 1997, The Moral Context of the Literary Text, 1997, The Liberating Bride, 2001, A Woman in Jerusalem, 2006. (film or stage) Three Days and a Child, The Lover, Continuing Silence of a Poet, At the Beginning of Summer, 1970, Facing the Forests. Member editorial board Siman Krea, Tel-Aviv Review, Mifgash, Keshet, 1966-1974.Contributor stories to Massa, Haaretz, Keshet. Books translated into 20 languages.
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Membership
Member board art Haifa Municipal Theatre. Member Kibbutz Chatzerim. Activist Israeli Peace Movement.
With Israeli Army, 1954-1957.
Connections
Married Rivka Kirsninski, June 14, 1960. Children: Sivan, Gideon, Nahum.
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1990
Career
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1963 - 1967
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1967 - 1972
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Recipient Akum prize, 1961, Municipality of Ramat-Gan prize, 1968, Prime Minister prize, 1972, Brenner prize, 1983, Alterman prize, 1986, Bialik prize, 1989, American National award 1990, 93, Israeli prize, 1995, Koret prize Associated Press, 2000.Recipient Akum prize, 1961, Municipality of Ramat-Gan prize, 1968, Prime Minister prize, 1972, Brenner prize, 1983, Alterman prize, 1986, Bialik prize, 1989, American National award 1990, 93, Israeli prize, 1995, Koret prize Associated Press, 2000.