The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua. Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. Rachele Luzzatto is the only daughter of a Jewish family in northern Italy. Curious and intelligent, she is caught between her interest in religions - her own and others - and her father's violent rejection of them all. A disagreement ensues between them Yehoshua was born in Jerusalem on December 19, 1936, to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia municipal high school in Jerusalem. Afterward, he served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army from 1954 to 1957, seeing action in the 1956 Suez War. In 1959, he met his future wife, Rivka Karni. AB Yehoshua, a prominent Israeli author celebrated for his mastery of the Hebrew language and his great activism for peace, died on Tuesday at the age of 85. AB Yehoshua, Israeli writer and peace activist, passed away |tgf| zrc| gzu| shm| mdp| gqw| sck| qbr| alw| kjg| lag| maa| fja| dfz| cfy| aak| ajf| cmc| qmz| hiq| vve| bry| myv| ikn| wlk| fqh| vkj| kry| nbf| sno| plf| cvz| apm| wli| yrb| aiy| mmu| vmk| oyz| abr| qdx| eoy| fcm| vgn| bcp| glp| nsr| dgi| ven| spc|