Background
Yehoshua, Abraham B. was born on December 9, 1936 in Jerusalem. Son of Yaakov and Malka (Rosolio) Yehoshua.
writer comparative literature educator
Yehoshua, Abraham B. was born on December 9, 1936 in Jerusalem. Son of Yaakov and Malka (Rosolio) Yehoshua.
Graduate in Philosophy and Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1990.
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.
(The Four Immeasurables—the cultivation of loving-kindness...)
( “Anyone who has had experience of the sad and subtle wa...)
( A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombin...)
(A suicide bomb explodes in a Jerusalem market. One of the...)
(Book by Yehoshua, Abraham B.)
(Novel in Hebrew. Printed in Israel)
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.
Member board art Haifa Municipal Theatre. Member Kibbutz Chatzerim. Activist Israeli Peace Movement.
With Israeli Army, 1954-1957.
Married Rivka Karni, June 14, 1960. Children: Sivan, Gideon, Nahum.