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Israeli Writers

world. Known for their accessibility,
his enduringly popular poems have
been translated into 40 languages.
Ephraim Kishon
4
(1924–2005)
After barely surviving the Holocaust,
Budapest-born Kishon moved to
Israel in 1949. He began publishing
in Hebrew just two years later,
quickly establishing himself as a
humorist and social and political
satirist. Two of the movies he wrote,
directed, and produced – Sallah
Shabati (1964) and The Policeman
(1971) – were nominated for Oscars.
Aharon Applefeld
Nobel Prize winner S. Y. Agnon 5
(b. 1932)
S. Y. Agnon (1888–1970)
1 As a child, Romanian-born Applefeld
Agnon won the 1966 Nobel
escaped from a Nazi concentration
Prize for Literature for works that camp and spent three years in hiding
explore the tension between modern before moving to Palestine in 1946.
life and Jewish tradition. Set in His novels approach the Holocaust
Eastern Europe and Palestine, they obliquely, with Badenheim 1939
draw on traditional Jewish sources, depicting the obliviously optimistic
especially the Hebrew Bible and the Jews of an Austrian spa town on
writings of medieval Jewish sages. the eve of World War II.
His seminal novel, The Bridal Canopy
Amos Oz (b. 1939)
(1931), is set in Hassidic Galicia in 6
the early 1800s. Born to a right-wing
Jerusalem family, Israel’s most
Emile Habibi (1922–96)
2 widely translated author spent much
of his life on socialist Kibbutz Hulda,
Born in Haifa to a Christian
Arab family, Habibi remained in the and has long been an outspoken
city after 1948, becoming a leader peace activist. His evocative novels
of the Israeli Communist Party are known for realistic characters,
and serving in the Knesset. His a lightly ironic tone, and a critical
works, including The Secret take on kibbutz life.
Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist,
A. B. Yehoshua
use satire and black humor 7
to consider the contra- (b. 1936)
dictions of life as an Scion of an Sephardic
Arab citizen of Israel. Jerusalem family,
Yehoshua captures the
Yehuda Amichai
3 mood of contemporary Israel
(1924–2000)
in richly textured novels that
Juxtaposing colloquialisms focus on individual concerns
with classical Hebrew, and interpersonal dynamics.
Amichai’s poetry explores Many of his works examine the
daily existence in the modern ways in which impulses and
passions can strip away the
Novelist A. B. Yehoshua veneer of civilization.
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