Yehoshua Bar-Yosef

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Yehoshua Bar-Yosef (Hebrew: יהושע בר-יוסף) was an Israeli writer. He was born May 29, 1912, in Safed, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and grew up in a strict Haredi Jewish family. He later left Orthodox Judaism and became a writer. He started his career as a newspaper editor and then worked as a freelance journalist. Bar-Yosef wrote novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and historical epics about Safed. He won many literary prizes, including the Bialik Prize in 1984. He died October 7, 1992.