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Amos-Oz

An Appreciation: Israeli Writer Amos Oz

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

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Amos-Oz

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

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

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos-Oz, Culture Vulture, Natalie Portman, Palestine

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

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.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Amos-Oz, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Jews and Words, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Yale-University-Press

Book Commentary: Fear of Translation

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 […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, World Books Tagged: Amos-Oz, David-Grossman, Featured, Persona Non Grata, World Books, writing-in-the-dark.-S.-Yizhar

Book Review: The Land of Amos Oz

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 […]

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: A Tale of Love and Darkness: A Memoir, Amos-Oz

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