Israeli author Amos Oz dies of cancer at 79
The most often translated Israeli author was a co-founder of the movement "Peace Now" and an advocate of the two-state solution in the Arab-Israeli peace process, but his works go far deeper than political positions.
Israeli author Amos Oz passed away on Friday at the age of 79, his daughter tweeted.
"To those who love him, thank you," Fania Oz-Salzberger wrote.
My beloved father, Amos Oz, a wonderful family man, an author, a man of peace and moderation, died today peacefully after a short battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his lovers and knew it to the end.
May his good legacy continue to amend the world.
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Oz was born as Amos Klausner on May 4, 1939 in Jerusalem and grew up in a district dominated by Jewish immigrants of Eastern European descent. His father's family had fled the Russian Revolution of 1917 from Odessa to Vilnius. In 1933 they emigrated to Palestine.
Following the tragic suicide of his mother, Oz joined the kibbutz of Chulda at age 15. To the chagrin of his father, he replaced his family name with the name of Oz which in Hebrew means "force" or "strength."
Surrounded by books and languages
Amos Oz's father, who came from a family of Zionist scholars, was a librarian and literary critic and spoke 12 languages, his mother seven. They taught their son only Hebrew, but in a roundabout way, he managed to return to multilingualism: His works have been translated into more than 40 languages, making him Israel's most-translated author.
From 1960 to 1963, Oz studied literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After graduating, he returned to the kibbutz. In 1986 he moved with his family to Arad in the Negev Desert .
A much-published author
From 1987 to 2005 he taught Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, where he took the prestigious Agnon Chair of Modern Hebrew literature in 1993. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland
"The great character writer of our time" - as the German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" called him - won many awards and distinctions, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Goethe Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Siegfried Lenz Prize.
International breakthrough
The microcosm of kibbutz society, the tensions and uncertainties in the young state of Israel and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians are central themes in the extensive work of Amos Oz, starting with his first collection of short stories, "Where the Jackals Howl" (1965).
The author achieved global fame overnight in 1968 with his second novel, "My Michael." It tells the story of a young woman who, after the failure of her marriage, escapes in her dreams to two handsome Arab twin brothers. Although she is not particularly interested in politics, the formation of the young Jewish state is reflected in her personal fate. "My Michael" broke long-standing taboos in the relations between Jews and Arabs.
A two-state solution
Following the Six-Day War (1967), Amos Oz became an early advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and went on to co-found Peace Now, an organization that seeks to achieve that.
"My suggestion is to accept the terms which the whole world knows for a two-state-solution and coexistence between Israel and the West Bank: Two capitals in Jerusalem, a mutually agreed territorial modification, removal of most of the Jewish settlements from the West Bank," Oz told DW in a 2014 interview.
He went on to say that he would like to see "Israel removed once and for all from the front pages of all the newspapers in the world and instead conquer, occupy and build settlements in the literary, arts, music and architecture supplements. This is my dream for the future."
Oz's support for a two-state solution was not widely popular in Israel. His nomination for the Israel Prize for Literature in 1998 met with heated controversy.
Amos Oz in June 1999
How to Cure a Fanatic
During a series of lectures held at the University of Tübingen in Germany in 2002, published later in the book "How to Cure a Fanatic," Oz tackled what he considered misconceptions about the Israeli peace movement.
This situation in his country could not be paralleled to the German peace movement, he said, and he was "not a pacifist in the sentimental sense of the word." During the Six-Day War of 1967 he fought in the Sinai Desert, and during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 in the Golan Heights. He also spoke out in favor of the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and supported Israel's actions during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict.
Literature is more than politics
Though he held strong political opinions and was publically vocal about them, Oz did not want his literary works to be reduced to a political message. He emphasized that he did not trace the problems in human relationships back to the living conditions in a particular political context, but to a much deeper level of the human soul — saying that he aimed to write not only about life in the context of the Middle East conflict, but about life itself.
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