Oz, Amos

Country/Region:: Israel
Born:: May 4, 1939
Dead:: December 28, 2018
Genres:: Miscellaneous prose

The presentation was last updated March 27, 2023

Amos Oz is the pseudonym of the Israeli novelist Amos Klausner. He was born in Jerusalem to Yehuda Arieh Klausner, a scholar and librarian from Lithuania, and Fania Mussmann whose father owned a mill at Równe in Poland (now Rivne, Ukraine) and moved with his family to Haifa in 1934. Amos Oz parents met as students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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The article written by: Tony Samuelsson. Published: April 5, 2016
Last update: December 29, 2018 by Alex editorial staff

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