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Starred Review on August 4, 2023 | Arts & Humanities
The importance of Hebrew writer, public intellectual, and prize-winning novelist Amos Oz (1939–2018) is beautifully discussed in this literary biography from scholar Alter (emeritus, Hebrew and comparative lit, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Nabokov and the Real World; The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary). Alter outlines major phases of Oz's life from childhood, life on the kibbutz, and the relationships he created through frie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More