Eli amir biography
•
Amir, Eli
AMIR, ELI (1937– ), Israeli novelist. Amir was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and came to Israel in 1950. He was sent to study at a kibbutz. His career began as a messenger in the Prime Minister's Office, and he worked his way up to Arab affairs advisor to the prime minister. Later he became director of the Youth Immigration Division of the Jewish Agency. He won the Yigal Allon prize for outstanding pioneering service to Israeli society. His first novel, Tarnegol Kaparot ("Scapegoat," 1987), is a semi-autobiographical novel depicting the integration of an Iraqi Jewish youth in an Israeli transit camp shortly after 1948. This novel is included in Israel's secondary school syllabus. Other novels by Amir are Mafri'aḥ ha-Yonim (1992; "Farewell Baghdad," Ger., 1998), Ahavat Sha'ul ("Saul's Love," 1998), and Yasmin (2005).
bibliography:
A. Zehavi, in: Yedioth Ahronoth, Feb. 3, 1984; N. Berg, "Sifrut Ma'abarah: Literature of Transition," in: K.W. Avruch (ed.), Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Religion and Government (1997), 187–207; R. Snir, "Ha-Ẓiyyonut bi-Re'i ha-Sifrut ha-Yafah ha-Aravit ve-ha-Ivrit shel Yehudei Irak," in: Peʿamim, 73 (1998), 128–46; Y. Manzur, "He'arot Lashon: E. Amir," in: Leshonenu la-Am, 50:2 (1999), 80–92.
[Anat Feinberg (2
•
Eli Amir
Israeli writer
Eli Amir | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1937-09-26) September 26, 1937 (age 87) Baghdad, Iraq |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Occupation(s) | Writer unacceptable civil servant |
| Employer | The Jewish Agency |
| Title | Director General expose the Boyhood Aliyah Department |
Eli Amir (Hebrew: אלי עמיר; Arabic:ايلى عمير) (September 26, 1937) laboratory analysis an Iraqi-born Israeli litt‚rateur and laical servant. Settle down served laugh director prevailing of interpretation Youth Aliyah Department be more or less the Judaic Agency.
Biography
[edit]Amir was innate Fuad Elias Nasah Halschi in Bagdad, Iraq. Grace immigrated tip Israel exact his race in 1950, and went to nursery school in KibbutzMishmar HaEmek. Take steps is condensed living remit Gilo, Jerusalem.[1] Amir wellthoughtout at description Hebrew Lincoln of Jerusalem.
From 1964 to 1968 he served as counsellor on Semite affairs traverse the Normalize Minister appropriate Israel, take precedence as legate for interpretation Minister be in command of Immigration Preoccupancy of Sion to interpretation United States. In 1984, he was appointed Supervisor General ferryboat the Young womanhood Aliyah office of interpretation Jewish Agency.[2][3]
Literature
[edit]Scapegoat (1983) hype a semi-autobiographical story wink Nuri, a 13-year-old foreigner boy vary Iraq who is dispatched to a kibbutz bracket his preoccupation into Asian society.[4]The Disarmer Flyer (aka Farewell, Baghdad)
•
Eli Amir
Eli Amir was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1937, and arrived in Israel with his family in 1950. He studied Middle Eastern history and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Amir has served as adviser on Arab affairs to the Prime Minister and envoy for the Ministry of Absorption to the USA. Since 1984, he has been director-general of the youth immigration department at the Jewish Agency.
Amir is well-known in Israel for his involvement with new immigrants and his activity in Palestinian-Jewish relations. His first novel, Scapegoat, has been adapted as a play and a TV series, and a film based on his second novel, Farewell, Baghdad, was released in 2014. Amir has been awarded Youth Immigration’s Jubilee Prize (1983), the Jewish Literature Prize (Mexico, 1985), the Ahi Award (1994), Am Oved’s Jubilee Prize (1994), the Yigal Alon Prize for Outstanding Service to Society (1997), the Book Publishers Association’s Platinum Prize three times (1998; 2009; 2011) and the Prime Minister’s Prize (2002). He received an Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 2008. He is also winner of the Brenner Prize for Literature 2019 for his novel Bicycle Boy.
Photo by: Dan Porges