Amos-Oz

An Appreciation: Israeli Writer Amos Oz

December 31, 2018
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The late Amos Oz relished the latent anarchism in Jewish holy texts — full of debates, arguments, challenges.

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Film Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness” — A Haunting View of 1940s Israel

August 30, 2016
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Natalie Portman turned Israeli author Amos Oz’s extraordinary memoir of 1940s Jerusalem into a superb film,

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Hanukkah Book Review: “Jews and Words” — More Than Tongue Can Tell

December 12, 2012
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At first glance, Oz and Oz-Salzberger’s “Jews and Words” seems to be an unexceptional if elegantly written and occasionally witty contribution to the Jewish bookshelf.

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Book Commentary: Fear of Translation

September 17, 2008
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by Bill Marx The newspaper “Haaretz” recently reported that the family of George Khoury, an Israeli Arab student killed in a 2004 terrorist attack in Jerusalem, responded to his death with a generous gesture – it has helped finance a translation into Arabic of Israeli writer Amos Oz’s powerful 2003 memoir  A Tale of Love…

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Book Review: The Land of Amos Oz

December 20, 2004
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One of Israel’s foremost prose writers has penned a masterful blend of autobiography and invention. A Tale of Love and Darkness: A Memoir, by Amos Oz. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. (Harcourt) By Marsha Pomerantz In a memoir of 538 pages, it is hard to find a single image emblematic of the…

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