{"id":7563,"date":"2013-06-10T16:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2013-06-10T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T22:47:02","slug":"yoram-kaniuk-israeli-author-and-journalist-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/yoram-kaniuk-israeli-author-and-journalist-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli author and journalist, dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yoram Kaniuk, an acclaimed author and journalist who had the designation Jewish removed from his Israeli identification card, has died.<\/p>\n

Kaniuk died Saturday night after fighting cancer for many years. He was 83.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Kaniuk wrote 17 novels, including “Himmo, King of Jerusalem” (1965); “Adam Resurrected” (1968); “Rockinghorse” (1974); “The Last Jew” (1982); and his most recent, “1948,” for which he was awarded the Sapir Prize for Literature in 2011.<\/p>\n

He also won the Brenner Prize for literature, the Bialik Prize and the President’s Prize, as well as being named an officer in France’s Order of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n

Kaniuk was wounded while fighting in Israel’s War of Independence.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Kaniuk successfully fought to have the designation Jewish removed from his Israeli identification card. He was permitted to identify himself as “without religion,” the same as his Christian-American wife and son.<\/p>\n

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