Background
Bar-Yosef was born on May 29, 1912, in Safed, HaZafon, Israel, and was raised in a Haredi Jewish family. He was the son of Yosef Tsenvirt and Chava Tsenvirt.
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Bar-Yosef was born on May 29, 1912, in Safed, HaZafon, Israel, and was raised in a Haredi Jewish family. He was the son of Yosef Tsenvirt and Chava Tsenvirt.
In 1917 his father died of typhus, and the mother and her two children went out to her family in the town of Shamkot in Transylvania In 1930, they returned to Eretz Israel, and Yehoshua Bar-Yosef lived in Jerusalem in the Mea Shearim neighborhood.
Yehoshua Bar-Yosef was a member of the "Davar" editorial board from 1942 to 1949, and later had a regular column, first in Maariv (from 1951 to 1954) and later in Yedioth Ahronoth.
In the War of Independence, Yehoshua Bar-Yosef served as a military reporter. Began to publish his stories from the life of the old and new settlement in "Davar" in 1955. Has published stories and plays as well as reports and publicist articles in the Hebrew press in Israel.
In 1952, as an emissary "in the camp", Yehoshua Bar-Yosef accompanied Operation Columbus - a voyage of two navy ships to the United States. He has published sympathetic articles on the voyage. But he was shocked by the manners of the commanders and their harsh treatment of the sailors. Yehoshua Bar-Yosef sent a personal letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, in which he sharply criticized the treatment given to the common sailors by Shlomo Erel and the command staff, and mentioned cases of discrimination on ethnic grounds.
Following the voyage, Yehoshua Bar-Yosef wrote a fictional play called "Storm at Sea", which critically presented the relationship on the navy ship, and sketched the portrait of the commander in a negative light.
In 1969 Yehoshua Bar-Yosef returned and settled in Safed in the Artists' Village, where lived and wrote until his death. He wrote a number of stories and novels, including: "Sukkot Shalom", "Meeting in the Spring ", "In Every Man", "Between Safed and Jerusalem", "Standing on the Brink", "A Guide for Embarrassed Patriots" and others.
Married two times: Aviva Manheim and Tzipora Bar-Yosef. Children: Yitzhak Bar-Yosef, Yosef Bar-Yosef, Bilha Rubinstein.