Israeli writer Amos Kenan, 1927 - 2009

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Writer, critic and activist Carlos Monsiváis, 1938 - 2010

6/8/2010
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4/6/2010
Anarchist, poet, publisher and chess-player, John Rety, 1930 - 2010

4/4/2010
"Literature was another victim of the war": Miguel Delibes, 1920 - 2010

3/7/2010
Translator, critic and BBC script editor, Barbara Bray, 1924 - 2010

1/30/2010
Tributes to People's Historian Howard Zinn, 1922 - 2010

1/2/2010
At 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, Rachel Wetzsteon, 1967 - 2009

12/27/2009
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11/8/2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto

11/7/2009
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009

10/14/2009
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009

9/30/2009
Milton Meltzer, 1915 – 2009

9/14/2009
Iconic poet and punk rocker, Jim Carroll, 1950 - 2009

8/9/2009
Israeli writer Amos Kenan, 1927 - 2009

7/30/2009
Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, 1930 - 2009

6/23/2009
Indian poet Kamal Das, 1934 - 2009

6/8/2009
Ethnic Studies Pioneer Ronald Takaki, 1939 - 2009

3/29/2009
Pioneer Historian and Scholar of African-American studies, John Hope Franklin, 1915 - 2009

2/20/2009
Sudan novelist Tayeb Salih, 1929 -2009

1/31/2009
John Updike, 1932 - 2009, David Margolick on John Updike's Adieu to Ted Williams

1/22/2009
Norwegian philosopher and founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Næss, 1912 – 2009

1/4/2009
English poet, novelist, playwright, socialist and pacifist, Adrian Mitchell, 1932 - 2008

12/28/2008
Art, Truth and Politics - Harold Pinter, 1930 - 2008

12/19/2008
Dorothy Porter, 1954 - 2008

11/17/2008
Jazz biographer Peter Levinson, 1934-2008

11/10/2008
'My epitaph will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'' – Studs Terkel, 1912 - 2008

9/15/2008
I think it's the best time to be alive ever and it's probably the best time to be a writer - David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

8/15/2008
Mahmoud Darwish, 1942 - 2008

6/17/2008
Media Guru Tony Schwartz, 1923 - 2008

5/25/2008
David Rieff on a lying to his dying mother, Susan Sontag

5/18/2008
Swing Hammer Swing! author, Jeff Torrington, 1935-2008

3/25/2008
Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 - 2008

1/22/2008
Poet and translator or Icelandic literature, Bernard Scudder, 1955 – 2007

1/13/2008
George MacDonald Fraser, inventor of Flashman, 1925 – 2008

12/30/2007
Julien Gracq, 1910 - 2007

12/20/2007
Diane Middlebrook, 1939 - 2007

12/16/2007
Gay historian Allan Bérubé dies

12/2/2007
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11/21/2007
Vernon Scannell, 1922 - 2007

11/14/2007
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007. He went down swinging.

11/6/2007
James Michie 1927 - 2007

9/19/2007
Champion of science fiction for children, Douglas Hill, 1935 - 2007

9/8/2007
Newberry Medal winner Madeleine L'Engle dies

9/2/2007
Julia Briggs, 1943 - 2007

8/30/2007
American short-story writer and activist Grace Paley dies

8/26/2007
Once the Nuremberg Trials were over and a few people judged guilty, no one wanted to talk about it. But I was driven by a desire to know what happened. - Raul Hilberg 1926 - 2007

8/5/2007
Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

6/11/2007
Poet and translator Michael Hamburger, 1924 - 2007

6/3/2007
Classical scholar and archaeologist, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, dies at 62

5/16/2007
Dickens scholar Philip Collins, 1923 - 2007

8/9/2009 Israeli writer Amos Kenan, 1927 - 2009

The Israeli writer and artist Amos Kenan died this past week aged 82. Born in Tel Aviv in 1927 and a veteran of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Kenan was a journalist who wrote for the newspapers Haaretz, Yediot Aharonot and Haolam Haze, and a painter, sculptor, poet, playwright and writer of fiction. Always associated with the secular left, Amos Kenan was one of the most outspoken and radical critics of Israeli society. In the 1940s, he was one of several artists and intellectuals belonging to the anti-Zionist and anti-religious Canaanite movement who sought to create an Israeli identity without Judaism by rejecting Jewish history and harking back to the biblical Canaanites. He saw Israelis as a new creation having more in common with Palestinian Arabs than with the Jewish Diaspora. In 1957 at a time when few Israelis recognize the existence of Palestinians as a national group, Kenan together with the journalist and peace activist Uri Avery wrote a manifesto where they advocated the creation of a Palestinian state in federation with Israel. "Amos Kenan was one of the creators of Hebrew culture", said Avery, "Hebrew, not Jewish". See Uri Avnery's Amos Kenan- Lover of the Country for his eulogy over Amos Kenan.

The Road to Ein Harod
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