More About Amos Oz

The Kripke Lecture, is a collaboration between The Thompson Forum and Harris Center for Judaic Studies. Oz is Israeli's most distinguished literary figure and a founding member of the Israel's Peace Now Movement. Oz is the author of eleven novels, three volumes of nonfiction, and a children's book.

An author of prose for children and adults, as well as an essayist, Amos Oz has been widely translated and is internationally acclaimed. He lives in the southern town Arad and teaches literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Oz has rooted his writing in the history of his homeland. Through his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, runs a common thread: examining human nature, recognizing its frailty but glorying in its variety, Oz consistently makes the plea for an end to ambivalence, for dialogue, for a channeling of passions towards faith in the future. Newsweek writes, "Eloquent, humane, even religious in the deepest sense, [Oz] emerges as a kind of Zionist Orwell: a complex man obsessed with simple decency and determined above all to tell the truth, regardless of whom it offends." He is the author of Black Box, To Know a Woman, and Under This Blazing Light. He has published 18 books in Hebrew, and about 450 articles and essays in Israeli and international magazines and newspapers which have been translated into 30 languages in over 35 countries. Since the Six Day War in 1967, Amos Oz has been actively involved with various groups within the Israeli Peace Movement. He has been one of the leading figures of 'Peace Now' since its founding in 1977.

For more on Oz, see his website.

On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see his 2002 interview on The News Hour.

For a 2003 review of his book, The Same Sea, follow this link.