I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
A. B. Yehoshua Quotes
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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| Birth: | 19th December, 1936 |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer |
About
Avraham Yehoshua was born to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. His father, Yaakov Yehoshua, was a scholar and author specializing in the history of Jerusalem. His mother, Malka Rosilio, immigrated from Morocco in 1932. Yehoshua served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army from 1954 to 1957. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia. After studying literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he began teaching. He lived in Jerusalem's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood. From 1963 to 1967 Yehoshua lived and taught in Paris and served as the General Secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Since 1972, he has taught Comparative and Hebrew Literature at the University of Haifa, where he holds the rank of Full Professor. In 1975 he was a writer-in-residence at St. Cross College, Oxford. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard the University of Chicago and Princeton. Yehoshua is married to Rivka, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. They have a daughter and two sons, and six grandchildren.
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