Abraham B. Yehoshua (Hebrew: א.ב. יהושע , born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner." Read full biography of A. B. Yehoshua →
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed... →
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are... →
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist... →
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to... →
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense... →
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Abraham B. Yehoshua (Hebrew: א.ב. יהושע , born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner."