Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in the fifth jerusalem generation of a sephardi jewish family”. Today it says “israeli novelist”.
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Avraham "Boolie" Yehoshua (born in Jerusalem in 1936 ) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, known publicly as A. Yehoshua , and familiarly as "Boolie". Yehoshua was born in the fifth Jerusalem generation of a Sephardi Jewish family (Feld 2000). After studying literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University , he began a teaching career. From 1963 to 1967 he resided and taught in Paris. In 1972 he joined the faculty of the University of Haifa . From the end of his military service, he began to publish fiction. He became a notable figure in the "new wave" generation of Israeli writers. They contrasted with the social concern of earlier writers by focusing on the individual and interpersonal. Yehoshua names Franz Kafka , Shmuel Yosef Agnon , and William Faulkner as formative influences (Wiley 1997). He has been compared to Faulkner in the New York Times . Yehoshua attended the signing of the Geneva Accord . He presents his political views in essays and interviews. Currently he is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Haifa , in the city where he resides. He has won the Bialik Prize and the Israel Prize for literature.1
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("Bulli") Yehoshua ( ) (born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright.His pen name is A.
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Yehoshua ( , born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A.The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner." Extra strong
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Yehoshua ( , born December 9, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner".
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Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (1936–2022) Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( ; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022 ) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner ". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics.The Final Despair – and Hope – of A.B.
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Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright (1936–2022) Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua ( Hebrew : אברהם גבריאל "בולי" יהושע ; December 9, 1936 – June 14, 2022 ) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner ". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics. The Final Despair – and Hope – of A.B.
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born in the fifth jerusalem generation of a sephardi jewish family
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israeli novelist
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