2009, ISBN: 9781156211618

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Amos Kenan (Hebrew: ), also Amos Keinan, (May 2, 1927 - August 4, 2009) was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist. Amos Kenan was born Amos Levine in south Tel Aviv in 1927. His parents were secular socialists. His father was a Gdud HaAvoda veteran and a former construction Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Amos Kenan (Hebrew: ), also Amos Keinan, (May 2, 1927 - August 4, 2009) was an Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist. Amos Kenan was born Amos Levine in south Tel Aviv in 1927. His parents were secular socialists. His father was a Gdud HaAvoda veteran and a former construction worker who became a clerk after a work accident. He was a member of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. In 1946 he met the poet Yonatan Ratosh and joined Ratosh's Canaanite movement, which he remained identified with until the early 1950s. He was among the founders of the movement's magazine, "Alef", in which he published his first book in 1949. Kenan dropped out of high school to become a factory worker. "Messiah" (1966)Kenan was a member of the Lehi underground. In 1989 he told The Guardian: "I joined because it was an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist organisationWe didn't fight the Arabs." During the 1948 ArabIsraeli War he fought in the 8th Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces, under the command of Yitzhak Sadeh, and was wounded. During the war he met Uri Avnery, who became his friend and colleague. Kenan took part in the Deir Yassin massacre. The Independent's Daphna Baram writes that Kenan's account of the attack on the village and his role in it varied over the course of his life. According to Avnery, Kenan "always asserted that the massacre was not intended, or that it did not take place at allHe himself was wounded at the beginning of the action, he asserted, and did not see what happened." From April 1950 until June 1952, Kenan wrote a satirical column in Haaretz called "Uzi Books, , Canaanites~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<