Amos Oz

Amos Klausner, born in Jerusalem on 4 May 1939 under the British Mandate, the son of a father from Lithuania and a mother from Ukraine, both educated and polyglot, lost his mother at the age of twelve. As a teenager he left for kibbutz Hulda, took the name Oz there and lived for years between the fields, teaching and writing. He fought in 1967 and in 1973, was in 1978 one of the founders of Peace Now and defended the two-state solution. He died in Petah Tikva on 28 December 2018.

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• NovelMy Michaelמיכאל שליAmos Oz · 1968Literature