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Amos OzFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and jour-nalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2008 he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp. He also received the Dan David prize in 2008 for “Creative Rendering of the Past”.

Biography

Oz was born in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neigh-borhood. Roughly half of his fiction is set within a mile of where he grew up. His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausner and Fania Mussman were Zionist immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father stud-ied history and literature in Vilnius, Lithuania. In Jerusalem his father was a librarian and writer. His maternal grandfather had owned a mill in Rov-no, then Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine, but moved with his family to Haifa in 1934. Many of Klausner’s family members were right-wing Re-

visionist Zionists. His great uncle Joseph Klausner was the Herut party candidate for the presidency against Chaim Weizmann and was chair of the Hebrew literary society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He and his family were distant from religion, disdaining what they perceived to be its irrationality. Yet he attended the community reli-gious school Tachkemoni. The alternative was the socialistic school affiliated with the labor move-ment, to which his family was decidedly opposed in their political values. The noted poet Zelda was one of his teachers. For high school, he attended Gymnasia Rehavia.

His mother committed suicide when he was twelve, causing him repercussions that he would explore in his memoir A Tale of Love and Dark-ness. He became a Labor Zionist and joined kibbutz Hulda at the age of fifteen. There he was adopted by the Huldai family (whose firstborn son Ron now serves as mayor of Tel Aviv) and lived a full kibbutz life. At this time he changed his sur-name to “Oz”, Hebrew for “strength”. “Tel Aviv was not radical enough,” he later said, “only the kibbutz was radical enough.” However, by his own account he was “a disaster as a laborer... the joke of the kibbutz.” He remained living and working on the kibbutz until he and his wife Nily moved to Arad in 1986 on account of his son Daniel’s asthma; however, as his writing career flowered he was allowed to gradually decrease his time de-voted to normal kibbutz work: the royalties from his writing produced sufficient income for the kib-

butz to justify this. In his own words, he “became a branch of the farm”.

Like most Israeli Jews, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces. In the late 1950s he served in the kibbutz-oriented Nahal unit and was involved in border skirmishes with Syria; during the Six-Day War (1967) he was with a tank unit in Sinai; during the Yom Kippur War (1973) he served in the Golan Heights. After Nahal, Oz studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University. Ex-cept for some short articles in the kibbutz news-letter and the newspaper Davar, he didn’t publish anything until the age of 22, when he began to publish books. His first collection of stories Where the Jackals Howl appeared in 1965. His first novel Elsewhere, Perhaps was published in 1966. He began to write incessantly, publishing an average of one book per year on the Labor Party press, Am Oved. Oz left Am Oved despite his political affili-ation. He went to Keter Publishing House because he received an exclusive contract that granted him a fixed monthly salary regardless of frequency of publication. His oldest daughter, Fania Oz-Salz-berger, teaches history at Haifa University.

Oz has written 18 books in Hebrew, and about 450 articles and essays. His works have been trans-lated into some 30 languages. He was awarded his country’s most prestigious prize: the Israel Prize for Literature in 1998, the fiftieth anniver-sary year of Israel’s independence. In 2005, he was awarded the Goethe Prize from the city of

Frankfurt, Germany, a prestigious prize which was awarded in the past to the likes of Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann for his life’s work. In 2007, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Lit-erature. In 2008, he received the Heinrich Heine Prize of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Literary career

Besides his fiction, Oz regularly publishes essays on the subjects of politics, literature, and peace. He has written extensively for the Israeli Labor newspaper Davar and (since the demise of Davar in the 1990s) for Yedioth Ahronoth. In English, his non-fiction has appeared in various places, includ-ing the New York Review of Books. Amos Oz is one of the writers whose work literary researchers study from a fundamental approach. At Ben-Gu-rion University in the Negev a special collection was established dealing with him and his works. Amos Oz has been considered in recent years one of the serious candidates to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He received the Israel Prize in the category of literature in 1998.

In his works Amos Oz tends to present protago-nists in a realistic light with a light ironic touch. His treatment of the subject of the kibbutz in his writings is accompanied by a somewhat critical tone. Oz credits a 1959 translation of American writer Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” with his decision to “write about what was around me.” In “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, his mem-

oir of coming of age in the midst of Israel’s vio-lent birth pangs, Oz credits Anderson’s “modest book” with his own realization that “the written world … always revolves around the hand that is writing, wherever it happens to be writing: where you are is the center of the universe.” In his 2004 essay “How to Cure a Fanatic” (later the title essay of a 2006 collection), Oz argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions, but rather a real estate dispute—one that will be resolved not by greater understanding, but by painful compromise.Political views

Amos Oz is among the most influential and well-regarded intellectuals in Israel. This regard is also evident in the societal realm where he regularly speaks out, although not as frequently as he did in the mid-1990s, when he received even more intense news coverage. Oz’s positions are notably dovish in the political sphere and social-demo-cratic in the socio-economic sphere. Oz was one of the first Israelis to advocate a two-state solu-tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after the Six-Day War. He did so in a 1967 article “Land of our Forefathers” in the Labor newspaper Davar. “Even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting oc-cupation,” he wrote. In 1978, he was one of the founders of Peace Now. Unlike some others in the Israeli peace movement, he does not oppose the construction of an Israeli West Bank barrier, but believes that it should be roughly along the Green Line, the pre-1967 border.

He opposed settlement activity from the very first and was among the first to praise the Oslo Accords and talks with the PLO. In his speeches and essays he frequently attacks the non-Zionist left, to the point of self-abnegation as he says, and always emphasizes his Zionist identity. He is identified by many right-wing observers as the most eloquent spokesperson of the Zionist left. The following two quotes may help encapsulate his views:

“Two Palestinian-Israeli wars have erupted in this region. One is the Palestinian nation’s war for its freedom from occupation and for its right to independent statehood. Any decent person ought to support this cause. The second war is waged by fanatical Islam, from Iran to Gaza and from Lebanon to Ramallah, to destroy Israel and drive the Jews out of their land. Any decent per-son ought to abhor this cause.” (April 7, 2002)

(Unofficial translation from Hebrew) Our big-gest problem is the disappearance of social soli-darity. A gross egotism is developing here, that isn’t even ashamed of itself. Twenty years ago a girl from Bet Shean said on television “I’m hun-gry”, and the doorposts shook (Isaiah 6:4). Yes, partly it was just lip service, but at least there was lip service. Today, even if she died of hunger on a live broadcast, nothing would happen, apart from high ratings and copywriters using the inci-dent for their purposes. Anyone who once naively thought that the engine of the entrepreneurs and the rich would pull behind it a long train in which

the rear cars would also go forward, was mistak-en. That didn’t happen. The engines are moving, and the rear cars are left behind on the rusting tracks. (September 6, 2002)

For many years Oz was identified with the Israeli Labor Party and was close to its leader Shimon Peres. When Shimon Peres was retiring from the leadership of the party, he is said to have named Oz as one of three possible successors, along with Ehud Barak (later Prime Minister) and Shlomo Ben-Ami (later Barak’s foreign minister). In the 90s Oz withdrew his support from Labor and went left to Meretz, where he had good, close connections with the leader, Shulamit Aloni. In recent years he described the Labor Party as a party that “in my view almost doesn’t exist any more”. In the elec-tions to the sixteenth Knesset that took place in 2003, Oz appeared in the Meretz television cam-paign, calling upon the public to vote for Meretz.

In July 2006, Oz supported the Israeli army in its war with Lebanon, writing in the Los Angeles Times “Many times in the past, the Israeli peace movement has criticized Israeli military opera-tions. Not this time. This time, the battle is not over Israeli expansion and colonization. There is no Lebanese territory occupied by Israel. There are no territorial claims from either side… The Israeli peace movement should support Israel’s attempt at self-defense, pure and simple, as long as this operation targets mostly Hezbollah and spares, as much as possible, the lives of Lebanese

civilians.

Like fellow Israeli novelists David Grossman and A.B. Yehoshua , Amos Oz changed his position (of unequivocal support for a military act of self-de-fense at the outbreak of the war) in the face of the cabinet’s decision at a later stage to expand operations in Lebanon. Grossman put their shared view into words at a press conference as he argued that Israel already exhausted its self-de-fense right.

On December 26, 2008, a day before the Israeli offensive into Gaza commenced, Oz signed a statement published as an ad in Yediot Aharonot supporting military action against Hamas in Gaza. Two weeks later in a Yediot Aharonot article he advocated a ceasefire with Hamas and called attention to the harsh conditions there. He was also quoted in the Italian Corriere della Sera as saying “Hamas is responsible” for the outbreak of violence, but “the time has come to seek a cease-fire.” He called for a “complete cease-fire, in which they don’t fire at us, in exchange for us easing the blockade of the Gaza Strip.”

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Black Box is a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz. It was first published in Israel in 1986 by Am Oved, and in the US by Harcourt in 1988.

The book’s plot deals with the tensions resulting from a destroyed marriage. The behaviours of a wild and rebellious son, spiralling out of control, serve as an excuse for the rejected wife to write to her ex-husband and conjure up all their past demons.

The book is written in the form of letters, which the various characters write to each other.

Characters

- Ilana Brandstatter - the main character in the story, she marries Alex Gideon and eventually they divorce because Ilana is unfaithful. Ilana seeks a new life by marrying Michael Somo, but grows to despise him as well. She is the mother of Boaz Gideon.

- Alex Gideon - the hardened and fanatical IDF officer who marries Ilana. He abandons his fam-ily and moves to the US after Ilana is found to be

cheating, and severs all contact with them.

- Boaz Gideon - Ilana and Alex’s son, he is violent and unruly. This is presumably caused by having seen Alex beat Ilana as a child, and having no father figure later on.

- Michael Somo - the person whom Ilana marries in an attempt to rebuild her life. Like Alex, Michael is fanatical, but this is expressed in his religious and financial dealings.

The book begins with Alex in Chicago, Ilana, Michel-Henri Somo, and their daughter Yifat in Jerusalem, and Boaz at his agricultural school somewhere to the north. Key places in the book include:

- Chicago - where Alex moved and teaches as a professor specializing in fanaticism

- Zichron Ya’akov - where Alex grew up, where his father lived until he was sent to a sanitorium, and where Boaz moves towards the end of the book to fix it up.

- Kiryat Arba - a settlement near Hebron, where Boaz is sent by Michel to reform, highly religious.

- Kibbutz - an unspecified kibbutz from which Ra-chel (Ilana’s sister) writes, where Ilana and Boaz lived right after the divorce.

- Algeria/France - where Michel was born and then later lived, respectively.

- Poland - where Ilana was born

- Russia - where Alex’s father was born

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FictionWaitingby Amos OzDecember 8, 2008

The old village of Tel Ilan was surrounded by orchards and groves. Vineyards grew on the slopes of its eastern hills, and its houses’ red-tiled roofs suffocated under the thick foliage of ancient almond trees. Many of the townspeople continued the tradition of farming with the aid of migrant workers, who lived in ramshackle huts. Some leased out their land, turning to cottage industry and running bed-and-breakfasts, art galleries, and trendy boutiques, while others found work elsewhere. In the town square were two gourmet restaurants as well as a local-wine merchant and a pet store specializing in tropical fish. One of the villagers had opened a workshop manufacturing pseudo-antique furniture. On weekends, Tel Ilan was flooded with tourists and bargain hunters. But on Fridays at noon everything shut down for the day, and the residents took siestas behind closed shutters.

Benny Avni, the head of the District Council of Tel Ilan, was a lanky man with stooped shoulders and a fondness for rumpled clothes and oversized sweaters, which gave him an ursine look. He walked pitched forward with a stubborn gait, as if

he were fighting a strong headwind. His face was pleasant, his brow high, his mouth gentle, and his brown eyes warmly inquisitive, as if to say, Yes, I like you, and yes, I want to know more about you. He possessed a gift for refusing without the refu-see realizing that he had just been refused.

At 1 P.M. on a Friday in February, Benny Avni sat alone in his office answering letters from con-cerned citizens. The municipal offices closed early on Fridays, but Benny Avni made a point of staying late at the end of the week, personally respond-ing to every letter. After he finished, he intended to go home, have lunch, take a shower, and nap until dusk. On Friday evenings, Benny Avni and his wife, Nava, sang in an amateur choir group at Dalia and Avraham Levine’s house, at the end of Beth Hashoeva Lane.

As he was answering the last few letters, he heard a hesitant knock at the door. His sparsely fur-nished office, a temporary facility he used while the municipal building underwent renovations, contained little more than a desk, two chairs, and a filing cabinet.

Benny Avni said, “Come in,” and looked up from his papers.

Into the room walked a young Arab named Adel, a former student who was now the resident gar-dener at Rachel Franco’s estate, at the edge of the village, near the graveyard’s stand of cypress

trees.

Benny Avni smiled. “Sit down.”

But, rather than sit, Adel, a small, thin man with glasses, hovered sheepishly near Benny Avni’s desk, lowered his head respectfully, and apolo-gized, saying, “Am I disturbing you? I know the office is closed.”

“Never mind. Sit.”

Adel hesitated, then perched on the edge of the chair, his erect posture insuring that he did not touch the back of the furniture. “It’s like this: your wife saw me walking in your direction and told me to drop this off. Actually, it’s a letter.” Benny Avni reached out and took the folded note from Adel. “Where exactly did you see her?”

“Near the Memorial Park.”

“Which way was she walking?”

“She wasn’t. She was sitting on a bench.”

Adel rose to his feet, paused, then asked if there was anything else he could do.

Benny Avni smiled and shrugged his shoulders. “That will be all.”

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