Boaz Evron

Boaz Evron
בועז עברון
Born	(1927-08-06)August 6, 1927 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Died	September 15, 2018(2018-09-15) (aged 91) Israel
Education	Hebrew University
Family	Yoel Moshe Salomon (grandfather)

Boaz Evron (Hebrew: בועז עברון, June 6, 1927 - September 15, 2018),[1] alternatively transliterated Boas Evron[2] was a left-wing[3] Israeli journalist and critic.[4]

Early life and education

Evron was born in Jerusalem. He attended Herzliya Hebrew High School and Hebrew University. Evron's family had lived in Palestine since the early nineteenth century; he was a great-grandson of Yoel Moshe Salomon, one of the founders of Petah Tikva.[1]

Career

He was a member of Lehi and the Canaanite movement early in his life and remained critical of Zionism and supportive of some of Canaanism's tenets.[1][4] In 1956 he co-founded the political group Semitic Action. His writings were published in Semitic Action's journal Etgar and in Tzipor HaNefesh, a paper edited by Amos Kenan and Dahn Ben-Amotz.

He worked for Haaretz from 1956 to 1964 and for Yediot Aharonot from 1964 to 1992. At Yediot, Evron wrote a column which appeared on the same page as Kenan's; their page in the paper was given the satirical nickname "Fatahland" in reference to their perceived sympathy for the Palestinians.[5] He also translated books by Bertrand Russell and Edith Nesbit into Hebrew. Evron was the director of the Beit Zvi theater school from 1970 until 1979.[6] He was on the editorial board of the Palestine-Israel Journal.[7]

Death

Evron died in 2018 at the age of 91.[8]

Published works

Books

In Hebrew

• מידה של חירות (Midah shel Herut), 1975
• החשבון הלאומי (HaHeshbon Haleumi, A National Reckoning), 1988

In English

• Jewish State or Israeli Nation?, Indiana University Press, 1995. (An adaptation of HaHeshbon Haleumi)[9]

References

1. Diamond, James S. (1990). "We Are Not One: A Post-Zionist Perspective". Tikkun. 5 (2): 107.
2. Norman Finkelstein transcribes Evron's name as such in Finkelstein, Norman (2003). The Holocaust Industry (Second paperback ed.). Verso Books. p. 51.
3. Eliason, Marcus (1981-07-12). "Begin remains in command despite wafer-thin election victory". Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-10-31. ^[dead link‍]
4. Silberstein, Laurence Jay (1999). The Postzionism debates: knowledge and power in Israeli culture. Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-415-91316-4.
5. Twersky, Amos (2009-08-11). "Remembering Amos Kenan". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
6. אודות בית צבי (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2008-12-31.
7. "About Us". Palestine-Israel Journal. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
8. "Boas Evron - the Maverick Israeli Intellectual You've Never Heard About". 29 May 2019.
9. "Jewish State or Israeli Nation?". Indiana University Press.