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Amos Oz: Urgent Words

02/21/2009
20 min
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Speakers: Amos Oz, Jonathan Freedland

Amos Oz has often said he writes with two pens: one for his novels, the other to expose injustices and promote peace. Jonathan Freedland spoke to the peace activist, the man who believes it is a writer’s duty to confront iniquities no matter how uncomfortable they prove to be.

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Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford, Rathbones Folio and Waterstones Book of the Year prizes and in April 2025 was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Books […]

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Amos Oz: Urgent Words

02/21/2009
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20 min

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Jonathan Freedland

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Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author of The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World,...