Unlike his older sister Fania and himself, he added: ‘Our middle sister, Galia, remembers experiencing difficult and abusive parenting through our father. I’m sure – that is, I know – that there is a core of truth in her words. Do not delete her. But do not delete us either. We also have a voice and our voice comes from the depths of our soul. ‘
Amos Oz has long been considered a giant of modern Hebrew literature. He began storytelling in the early 1920s, publishing more than a dozen novels, as well as collections of short fiction, non-fiction works, and many essays.
He was an idealist and changed his original surname, Klausner, to Oz, Hebrew for courage, when he exchanged his suffocating parental home in Jerusalem for a kibbutz life. The groundbreaking characters of the Socialist kibbutz movement would reside in some of his novels. His work has been translated into more than 35 languages.
Galia Oz’s book disrupted the literary world of Israel and cast a shadow over her father’s legacy at a time when a new social consciousness lay in the hands of flawed cultural figures in the United States, France, and elsewhere around the world. Mrs Oz herself refers to the #MeToo movement and writes: ‘Houses like the one I grew up in, somehow float in space, far beyond the reach of social workers, beyond the scope of the influence of revolutions such as MeToo, without a brand in social networks. ”
The initial outage was intense. Me Oz-Salzberger wrote that critics described her on social media as evil, manipulative, a liar and a Nazi statesman. Right-wing Israelites looked out for what they saw as the unmasking of a liberal, left-wing hero. The family also received their support.
In another passionate Facebook post, Ms. Oz-Salzberger’s son, Dean Maccabbi Salzberger, wrote: ‘Finally, I have one clever thing to say about it all. If you have an alienation in the family, muddy relationships, remnants of years, for whatever reason, then do everything to correct it. I do not know how to fix things at your end, only you know. (Every family is different. Yes, yes, even happy families). ”
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