Interview with Amos Oz about the Roots of Fanaticism | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

70 years ago, on 14 May 1948, the State of Israel was founded. Yves Bossart speaks to Amos Oz, Israel’s most important author, about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, about spiritual scars, well-meaning fanatics and about the peace-making power of literature.

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The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Amos Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem, which at the time was still part of the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1948, at nine years old, he experienced the civil war between Jewish and Arab troops and the founding of the State of Israel.

Three years later, his mother took her own life. Oz joins a kibbutz, fights in the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, later founding the peace movement Peace Now and becoming a literature professor.

To this day, he continues to support a two-state solution on the land of historical Palestine. Yet is this solution still even feasible now in view of Israeli settlement policy? What impact does the ongoing war have emotionally on the people? And how does one get fanatics to listen?

Yves Bossart meets the multi-award-winning and most important author in Israel on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his homeland.

Bibliography:
👉 Amos Oz, “Dear Zealots – Letters from a Divided Land”. 2017.
👉 Amos Oz, “Judas”. 2014.
👉 Amos Oz, “A Tale of Love and Darkness”. 2002.

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