Amos Oz

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes rare public appearance at Amos Oz memorial event

The author’s daughter tweeted a photo of her and the Jewish Supreme Court justice, who said she was a fan of the Israeli writer.

President Reuven Rivlin at Amos Oz funeral service

Ideas

Amos Oz’s fiction is forever, while reality left his politics behind

Palestinian rejectionismn left many Israelis contemptuous of the late novelist’s idealism, writes a novelist and attorney.

Amos Oz, iconic Israeli novelist and peace activist, is dead at 79

(JTA) — Amos Oz, one of Israel’s most widely read and best-known writers, has died. He was 79. The cause was cancer, the Israeli media reported. Barely older than the country he chronicled in dozens of novels, essays and nonfiction books, Oz represented a generation of writers who traced the country’s emotional arc from its […]

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