Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine

Duration: 50'37''

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A portrait of celebrated Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness gives an eyewitness account of the birth of Israel.

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