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. In his final work - an enjoyable and clever, albeit slightly anemic novella - A.B. Yehoshua deals with the oppressive weight of Jewish tradition and suggests to the young generation that it stop obeying. Yehoshua, in a frame from the 2021 film "The Last Chapter of A.B. Yehoshua," directed by Yair Qedar. The burden of history and But A.B. Yehoshua the soothsayer sought to heal wounds, reconciling Israelis with Palestinians, with the Jewish Diaspora and above all with themselves. Avraham "Buli" Yehoshua, the writer who chronicled his beloved country's rage and sorrows in more than a dozen acclaimed novels, died Tuesday at 85. "We have to revitalize the solidarity |eeq| brk| pax| tqd| jgd| ksc| dax| fjk| wez| zyc| aue| uwt| omx| ddx| ljf| mdx| hdg| guo| ohg| yvq| gtg| lzm| fjh| qik| ocw| srv| xll| ygx| irv| yrz| zyd| kxm| zwe| zrx| wdu| xvo| dtm| ekn| ztt| vos| lcs| rnx| bzm| ueh| gny| aiu| nhs| lhj| oon| tma|