Amos Oz Quotes


My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.


Citations

Oz, Amos. Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land. Translated by Jessica Cohen, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

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Amos Oz
Amos Oz
  • Born: May 4, 1939
  • Died: December 28, 2018
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Academic

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.