HistoryFigure1936–2022

Abraham B. Yehoshua

א.ב. יהושע

Region: Israël

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Major Israeli novelist and playwright, author of Mr. Mani and The Lover. Together with Oz and Grossman, he was one of the pillars of Israeli fiction.

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Sources & resources

N. Sadan-Loebenstein, A.B. Yehoshua: Monografiyah (1981)
Prooftexts, (1982)
R. Alter (ed.), Modern Hebrew Literature (1975)
« Yehoshua, Avraham B. », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
H. Bloom, "Domestic Arrangements,", New York Times Book Review
G. Ramras-Rauch, The Arab in Israeli Literature (1989)
A. Balaban, Mr. Molcho
Israelis Writers Consider the Outsider (1993)
B. Horn, Facing the Fires: Conversations with A.B. Yehoshua (1997)
G. Shaked, Ha-Sipporet ha-Ivrit (1998)
H. Herziig, Ha-Kol ha-Omer Ani (1988)
N. Ben-Dov (ed.), In the Opposite Direction: Articles on Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua
Z. Shamir and A. Doron (eds.), Massa el Tom ha-Elef: Miv?ar Ma'amarim (1999)