The famous Israeli writer and co-founder of the Israeli “peace now”movement gets the award for his commitment to peace and understanding.
Was awarded the 78-year-old Amos Oz on Thursday evening in the framework of the Evangelical Church of the tags in the Berlin University of the arts. In order for his commitment for peace and understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as the modern Germany should be honored. The € 10,000 award is sponsored by the Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam. It is the first rabbinical Seminary in Germany after the Holocaust, and was founded in 1999.
In his speech, Berlin’s culture Senator Klaus Lederer Oz praised as someone, the search for compromises, to proclaim, rather than great Ideals. This show, among other things, the fact that Oz had early on to distance himself from any national way of Thinking. In Europe Grassi was the end of Anti-Israel extremism in truth a anti-Semitism. The categorical has to do, therefore, the less he will be fed by Knowledge.
Oz said in his speech of thanks the special role of Germany in the mediation in the middle East conflict, and called for a politics of small Gestures. He felt the namesake of the award, Abraham Geiger, because this was regarded as a nonconformist Reformer.
It is not the first award
Amos Oz was born in 1939 in Jerusalem as Amos Klausener. In the 1950s, he adopted his current name to Oz, meaning “strength” or “strength”. He is considered to be the most important contemporary writer of Israel. With his latest novel, “Judas” is nominated as the “Conscience of the Nation” referred to the author for the American Booker Prize. He also received, among other things, in 1992, the peace prize of the German book trade, in 2008 the Heinrich-Heine prize of the city of Düsseldorf, in 2014, the Siegfried-Lenz-Preis, 2015, the International literature prize from the house of the cultures of the world. His works have been translated into three dozen languages.
A significant distinction in the liberal Judaism
The prize is named for the Potsdam Rabbi’s seminar, according to the pioneers of liberal Judaism, Abraham Geiger (1810-1874). The award recognizes “individuals who have made the pluralism deserves, and for openness, courage, tolerance and freedom of thought.” Under the previous price, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Mainz cardinal Karl Lehmann and the German makers-a French political scientist Alfred Grosser.
kk/pl (KNA, EPD, Abraham Geiger College)