Creator Bio
A. B. Yehoshua
b. 1936
A. B. Yehoshua is an author, playwright, and essayist. Jerusalem-born, he served in the military, taught in Paris, and was a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Haifa University. Yehoshua has written numerous best-selling novels as well as nonfiction, children’s books, and plays. His essays have appeared in the Israeli and foreign press. In 1995, Yehoshua received the Israel Prize for Literature.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Early in the Summer of 1970
I believe I ought to go over the moment when I learned of his death once more.
A summer morning, the sky wide, June, last days of the school year. I rise late, faintly stunned, straight into the…
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The Lover
And then I heard the singing. Chanting, prayer, live voices, not from the transistor. It wasn’t yet light, just the first flutterings of dawn. Shivering with cold, wrapped in our blankets, wet with…
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Mr. Mani
—I quite agree, sir. It was done a bit cavalierly and without a proper security check, because he had become known to everyone throughout the autumn months of the advance on Jerusalem. Which is why it…
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Journey to the End of the Millennium
From the corner of his eye, Rabbi Elbaz now observed the anxiety in Ben Attar’s face receding somewhat, and a short row of white teeth gleaming in the smile of a merchant who finally sees the hope of…
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Genealogies of Two Wandering Hebrew Melodies
It is well known that tunes of songs, no less than their texts, often provide an historical mirror of an exceedingly sharp focus. A special category of such songs are the so- called “migrating” or…
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In Praise of Normality
The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…