Dani: In Memoriam

Amos Kenan

1952

From his earliest childhood, Dani was happy, sociable, and cooperative. When he was in Tova’s kindergarten, he loved to sit together with the children and sing: “Yulla yulla, what’ll we do without our work?”

When he entered first grade, he still loved the group. Every recess he would sit together with them all and sing: “Comrade, comrade, comrade…

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Creator Bio

Amos Kenan

1927–2009
Born in Tel Aviv, author, playwright, and sculptor Amos Kenan joined the Leḥi underground and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. In the early 1950s, he wrote a satirical column for the newspaper Haaretz. He lived for a few years in Paris, later returning to Israel where he was a long-time columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aḥaronot. A peace activist, Kenan won the Brenner Prize for Literature in 2000.

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