Abraham B. Jehoshua

Birth : 1936-12-19,

History

Born from a family of Sephardic jews. With Amos Oz, Jehoshua is Israel's most prominent writer. Published four novels, essays and short stories. His third novel, Molcho, is considered his international breakthrough, with successful publications of translations in the US, Italy, France and the UK.

Movies

The Evening Journey
Story
The story of Fishberg, a small hard working fishing town and it's inhabitants....
Kike Like Me
Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. Along the way he meets anti-semitic politician Pat Buchanan, Israeli novelist AB Yehoshua, British anti-Israeli curmudgeon Richard Ingrams and Hasids in Brooklyn; he causes a near-riot in a Parisian suburb simply by asking what people think about Jews; and he meets the 'dominatrix' behind Berlin's largest memorial to dead Jews. (Storyville)
Ha-Shiva MeHodu
Writer
This beautiful love story that start's in Israel and going through all scene's of India, it's cultural, beauty and religions traditions brings us to the question: "What is this love?"...
The Silence of the Poet
Novel
This drama comes from one of Germany's greatest contemporary directors, Peter Lilienthal; and is one of the few to be released outside of the country. It is the story of an Israeli poet's struggle to create in an inhospitable environment. The poet is suffering from severe writer's block and much of the film centers upon the reasons why. Among those reasons is a brother blinded during the Yom Kippur War, the drawn out illness and subsequent death of his wife, and the simpleton son she bore before she became ill. Most of the time the poet blames his son for his inability to write; the father resents having to care for him night and day but he refuses to institutionalize the lad.
The Lover
Writer
Adam is trying to fix his marriage but both his wife Asia and teenage daughter Dafi are too busy with their lovers.
Three Days and a Child
Writer
Based on a short story by Abraham B. Jehoshua, the movie follows Eli (Oded Kotler) taking care of an old girlfriend's child for three days. He wants him to get hurt, he worries about him. Will the child survive the three days? Will Eli?