“What is one justified in dying for and what is it permissible to kill for?”
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Amos Oz
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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culture · Israeli writer, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018) · linguist · journalist · novelist · translator · essayist · pedagogue · university teacher · children's writer · poet · writer · also Amos Oz, Oz
Born 4 May 1939 · Died 28 December 2018 · Q151872
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because nobody could talk to each other when they arrived. The only common language they had was prayerbook Hebrew. So if they had to ask directions to the Wailing Wall, or rent a business, or buy bread, or sell a pair of shoes, they had to resort to prayerbook language.
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2026· 2 entries
“because nobody could talk to each other when they arrived. The only common language they had was prayerbook Hebrew. So if they had to ask directions to the Wailing Wall, or rent a business, or buy bread, or sell a pair of shoes, they had to resort to prayerbook language.”
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2023· 2 entries
KPFA: Amos Oz (1939-2018), “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” 2004
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Amos Oz’ Review: Israel’s Narrator
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2022· 1 entry
Oz's son Daniel published a memoir staunchly defending his father and criticizing his sister for supposedly distorting the truth
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2021· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Amos Oz expressed the painful turbulence of Israeli life | David Grossman
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2018· 5 entries
The Guardian: Amos Oz: the novelist prophet who never lost hope for Israel
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The Guardian: Israeli novelist Amos Oz dies aged 79
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Died 2018-12-28.
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“Każdy początek ma w sobie smak odrodzenia, każdy koniec zaś roztacza zapach śmierci.”
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“(…) zło metafizyczne jest więc niepochwytne, zło ziemskie zaś rozsiewa smrodliwą woń słoniny.”
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Abraham Geiger Prize (2017).
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Awarded Mount Zion Award (2017).
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The Guardian: Amos Oz and Ismail Kadare named on Man Booker international prize longlist
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Amos Oz: ‘I love Israel, but I don’t like it very much’
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The Guardian: Judas by Amos Oz review – a complex and impressive achievement
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Siegfried Lenz Prize (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (2013).
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Awarded Newman Prize (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Łódź (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Siegfried Unseld Preis (2010).
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded Stefan Heym International Award (2008).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2008).
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Awarded Dan David Prize (2008).
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Awarded Heinrich Heine Prize (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp (2008).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2007).
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A selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2006).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Oz appeared in the Meretz television campaign, calling upon the public to vote for Meretz
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Israel Prize (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1997).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Advocated) the construction of an Israeli West Bank barrier, but believed that it should be roughly along the Green Line, the 1949 Armistice line between Israel and Jordan
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Femina étranger (1988).
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Oz left Am Oved for the Keter Publishing House, which offered him an exclusive contract that granted him a fixed monthly salary regardless of output
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Bialik Prize (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of Arts and Letters (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Bernstein Prize (1983).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Ze'ev Prize (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Brenner Prize (1976).
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1968· 1 entry
Published the critically acclaimed My Michael, establishing himself as one of the most prominent writers of his generation
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1965· 1 entry
– Kugel Prize literary award from Municipality of Holon
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1963· 1 entry
And began teaching in the kibbutz high school, while continuing to write
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1939· 3 entries
Born 1939-05-04.
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“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.'”
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In Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, where he grew up at No
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