Amnon Shamosh (; 28 January 1929 – 1 March 2022) was an Israeli author and poet.

Biography

Shamosh was born in

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

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. In his childhood he immigrated to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ...

and participated in the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

in a

Palmach The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Phalanges/Companies") was the elite combined strike forces and sayeret unit of the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of th ...

unit. He studied at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

. He was a founder of

kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ...

Ma'ayan Baruch Ma'ayan Baruch () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The kibbutz was founded on 11 March 1947, on the site ...

. Shamosh died in Ma'ayan Baruch on 1 March 2022, at the age of 93.

Selected works

Shamosh wrote in hebrew stories, novels, and poetry: * ''My Sister the Bride'' (1974, Massada Press, published in English in 1979) * ''Michel Ezra Safra and Sons'' (1978, Massada Press) * ''Calamus and Cinnamon'' (1979, Massada Press) * ''A Kibbutz is a Kibbutz is a Kibbutz'' (1980, Massada Press) * ''With Me from Lebanon'' (1981, Hakibbutz Hameuchad) * ''The Cedars of Lebanon'' (1990, Massada Press) * ''Marrano Mountain'' (1991, Massada Press, published in English in 1992) * ''Autumn Stories, Fall Colors'' (1995, Modan) * ''On the Silk Road'' (2000, Aviv) * ''Liri's Chronicles: Stories from the Third Half'' (2015, Massada Press) Shamosh also wrote non-fiction books * ''Haketer, the Story of the

Aleppo Codex The Aleppo Codex () is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias in the tenth century CE (circa 920) under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate, and was endorsed for its accuracy by Maimonides. ...

'' (1987, Ben Zvi Institute) * ''From the Source'' (1988, Carta) * ''Good Morning Alz Heimer'' (2015, Massada Press)

Awards and recognition

Shamosh was awarded the President's Prize for Literature in 2001. He also received many other awards for his writing.

References

1929 births 2022 deaths Palmach members Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli novelists Hebrew-language writers Hebrew-language poets Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent Jews from the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works Sephardi Jews in Mandatory Palestine Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Writers from Aleppo {{Israel-writer-stub

Biography

Selected works

Awards and recognition

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