Abraham B. Yehoshua was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua who was born on December 9, 1936, in Jerusalem.
The New York Times called him the “Israeli Faulkner”.
From 1954 to 1957, Yehoshua served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia municipal high school in Jerusalem.
He began teaching after studying literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lived in Jerusalem’s Neve Sha’anan neighborhood.
Yehoshua lived and taught in Paris and served as the General Secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students from 1963 to 1967.
He taught Comparative and Hebrew Literature at the University of Haifa from 1972, where he held the rank of Full Professor.
Yehoshua was a writer-in-residence at St Cross College, Oxford in 1975. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard (1977), the University of Chicago (1988, 1997, 2000), and Princeton (1992).
A. B. Yehoshua Wife: Who Was Rivka Jehoshua?
Yehoshua was married to Rivka, who was a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. The couple got married in 1960 until Rivka’s death in 2016.
Yeboah died of cancer, on June 14, 2022, at the age of 85. He is survived by a daughter, two sons, and six grandchildren.
Source: Kingaziz.com