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Bar-Yosef

Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (Hebrew: יהושע בר-יוסף, b. 29 May 1912 d. 7 October 1992) was an Israeli writer.

Bar-Yosef was born in Safed, Ottoman Empire and was raised in a Haredi Jewish family. He later left Orthodox Judaism, and became a writer. He worked first as a newspaper editor, and then as a freelance journalist. His work includes novels, novellas, short stories, plays and historical epics about Safed. He received numerous literary awards, including the Bialik Prize in 1984.

Books published in Hebrew

  • The Voice of Passion (stories), Kiryat Sefer, 1937; Gazit, 1939
  • A Whole Month (play), Mishkan, 1938
  • The Fallen Barrier (novella), Gazit, 1940
  • Mother of Daughters (novel), Massada/Bialik Institute, 1943; Ma`ariv 1988
  • The Alleys of Jerusalem (play), Achiasaf, 1941
  • A Meeting in Spring, Twersky, 1947
  • A Boy in the Street (story), Hakibbutz Hameuachad, 1945
  • From a Mother`s Body (stories), Adi, 1945
  • Stories from Me`ah She`arim, Ofer, 1946
  • The New House (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1946
  • My Husband, the Minister (play), Twersky, 1950
  • Magic City (novel), Twersky, 1949
  • Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1979
  • On the Threshold (novel), Twersky, 1953
  • Sword of Salvation (novel), Ministry of Defense, 1966
  • Tabernacle of Peace (novel), Am Oved, 1958; Ma`ariv, 1988
  • Ma`ariv, 1988
  • The Three that Left (novel), Massada, 1963
  • People of Beit Rimon (stories), Amichai, 1958; Ma`ariv 1988
  • The Secret of a Woman (stories), Am Oved, 1957
  • The Way to the Red Rock (stories), The Author, 1959
  • Upon Thy Walls, O Jerusalem (play), Renaissance, 1967
  • Between Safed and Jerusalem (autobiography), Bialik Institute, 1972; Ma`ariv, 1992
  • Soul Mate (novella), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1979
  • The Fourth Photograph (novel), Yachdav, 1980; Ma`ariv, 1991
  • A Guide for Confused Patriots (non-fiction), Hadar, 1984
  • Tales of Safed, Tales of Jerusalem (stories), Keter, 1984
  • A Heretic Despite Himself (novel), Keter, 1985
  • Let There Be Light (stories), Hadar, 1985
  • Three Ways (novel), Keter, 1986
  • The Infant from Bar`am (novel), Hadar, 1987
  • A Hungry Man`s Tale (stories), Ma`ariv, 1988
  • On The Way Back (novel), Keter, 1988
  • The Fish and the Dove (novel), Ma`ariv, 1989
  • Utopia in Blue and White (novel), Ma`ariv, 1990
  • Burnt Matches (novel), Ma`ariv, 1991
  • Seed of Everlasting Life (novel), Ma`ariv, 1992
  • Parchment and Flesh (novel), Ma`ariv, 1993

Performed plays

  • Guardians of the Walls
  • My Husband the Minister
  • Vote For Agassi
  • It Happened in Tel Aviv
  • Saturday in Tiberias
  • Laugh Beloved Land
  • Until One Hundred and Ninety
  • Peace, Peace, But There Is No Peace

Books in translation

  • Hissda Goes Up the Mountain, English: New York, World Zionist Organization, 1972
  • Soul Mate, Italian: Florence, Giuntina, 1999; reprint forthcoming

References

  1. Yehoshua Bar-Yosef. Indiana University Press. 22 July 2000. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-253-33711-5. Retrieved 2011-12-03 – via Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature.
  2. Shaked, Gershon; Budick, E. Miller (2000). Modern Hebrew Fiction. Indiana University Press. p. 110. Safed bar-yosef.
  3. "List of Bialik Prize recipients for fiction 1933-2004" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv Municipality website.
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