# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-b-yehoshua
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:42:09.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-b-yehoshua"
name: "A. B. Yehoshua"
slug: "a-b-yehoshua"
description: "Avraham Gabriel \"Boolie\" Yehoshua was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the \"Israeli Faulkner\". Underlying themes in Yehoshua's work are Jewish identity, the tense relations with non-Jews, the conflict between the older and younger generations, and the clash between religion and politics."
tagline: "Israeli writer (1936–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A_B_Yehoshua_DSC0153.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IL"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-12-09"
deathDate: "2022-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5830456463367856
  historical:           22.499324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  237
  category: 111
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump