Yoram Kaniuk

Yoram Kaniuk, born in Tel Aviv on 2 May 1930, the son of one of the first leaders of the city's art museum, left school at seventeen for the Palmach and was wounded in 1948 in the fighting around Jerusalem. He studied painting at Bezalel and then for a year in Paris, went to sea as a sailor and lived for about ten years in the United States, where he frequented bohemian New York, Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday among others. Back in Israel in 1958, he obtained in 2011 the right to be registered in the civil register as having no religion, received the Sapir Prize for Tashah and died in Tel Aviv on 8 June 2013.

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• NovelHimmo, King of Jerusalemחימו מלך ירושליםYoram Kaniuk · 1966Literature